Dragonfly-class river gunboat
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_IWM_FL_001677.jpg) HMS Locust, one of the class | |
| Class overview | |
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| Builders: | Vosper Thornycroft, Yarrow Shipbuilders, J S White |
| Operators: | Royal Navy |
| Subclasses: | HMS Scorpion |
| Planned: | 6 |
| Completed: | 5 |
| Cancelled: | 1 |
| Lost: | 4 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Type: | River gunboat |
| Displacement: | 585 long tons (594 t) |
| Length: | 197 feet (60 m) |
| Beam: | 33 feet (10 m) |
| Draught: | 5 feet (1.5 m) |
| Installed power: | 3,800 shaft horsepower (2,800 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Complement: | 74 |
| Armament: |
2 × 4 inches (100 mm) guns on single mountings 1 × 3.7 inches (94 mm) howitzer 8 × machine guns |
The Dragonfly class was a class of river gunboats. Six were planned and five were built: of those five, four were lost in the Second World War. One of the four was HMS Scorpion, a slightly upgunned and better powered version. The class consisted of:
- HMS Dragonfly - lost in the Banka Strait, 14 February 1942.[1]
- HMS Grasshopper - lost in the Banka Strait, 14 February 1942.[1]
- HMS Locust
- HMS Mosquito - lost on 1 June 1940, off Dunkirk.[1]
- HMS Scorpion - upgunned variant. Lost in the Banka Strait, 13 February 1942.[1]
- HMS Bee - cancelled, March 1940.[1]
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