Dragonfly-class river gunboat

HMS Locust, one of the class
Class overview
Name:	Dragonfly class
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 ft (60 m)
Beam:	33 ft (10 m)
Draught:	5 ft (1.5 m)
Installed power:	3,800 shp (2,800 kW)
Propulsion:	Geared steam turbines Two shafts
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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