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    The Insect-class gunboats (or large China gunboats) were a class of small but well-armed Royal Navy ships designed for use in shallow rivers or inshore...
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  • (APHIS), organizational unit of the USDA HMS Aphis (1915), Royal Navy insect class gunboat Aphid AFIS (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    HMS Bee (1915) (category Insect-class gunboats)
    HMS Bee was an Insect-class gunboat of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 December 1915. This class are also known as "Large China Gunboats". Initially built...
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    HMS Ladybird (1916) (category Insect-class gunboats)
    HMS Ladybird was an Insect-class gunboat of the Royal Navy, launched in 1916. This class are also referred to as "large China gunboats". Originally built...
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    HMS Glowworm (1916), an Insect-class gunboat, launched on 5 February 1916 and sold in 1928. HMS Glowworm (H92), a G-class destroyer launched on 22 July...
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    HMS Cockchafer (1915) (category Insect-class gunboats)
    Navy Insect-class gunboat. She was built by Barclay Curle and launched on 17 December 1915 as the fifth Royal Navy ship to carry this name. The Insect class...
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  • boarding vessels Insect-class gunboat Dragonfly-class river gunboat King Salvor-class salvage vessel Beachy Head-class repair ship Bar-class boom defence...
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  • of beetles (Coccinellidae). The first HMS Ladybird (1916) was an Insect-class gunboat launched in 1916 and sunk off Tobruk in 1941. The second HMS Ladybird (1950)...
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  • entomology "Insects" (Life), 2009 TV nature documentary episode Insect-class gunboat "Insects", a 2010 song by Ash from their A–Z Series Insectia, nature...
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  • HMS Bee (1915) was an Insect-class gunboat launched in 1915 and sold in 1939. HMS Bee was to have been a Dragonfly-class river gunboat. She was ordered in...
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  • launched in 1881 and sold in 1905. HMS Cockchafer (1915) was an Insect-class gunboat launched in 1915, hulked in 1947 and sold in 1949. HM hired armed...
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  • Mountain (1988 novel) Cricket-class coastal destroyer, a 1906 class of Royal Navy ships HMS Cricket (1915), an Insect-class gunboat HMS Cricket (shore establishment)...
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    A river gunboat is a type of gunboat adapted for river operations. River gunboats required shallow draft for river navigation. They would be armed with...
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    Special warfare combatant-craft crewmen Navies of landlocked countries Insect-class gunboat Mississippi Marine Brigade Amur Military Flotilla Maritime geography...
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    HMS Aphis (category Insect-class gunboats)
    HMS Aphis was a Royal Navy Insect-class gunboat. She was built by Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, launched on 15 September 1915 and completed in November 1915...
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  • Japanese cruiser Suma, a Suma-class cruiser launched in 1895 and stricken in 1923 Japanese gunboat Suma, an Insect-class gunboat launched in 1915 as HMS Moth...
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  • Royal Navy have been named HMS Gnat after the insect. The first HMS Gnat (1856) was a Cheerful-class gunboat built at Laird's shipyard and launched on 10...
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    The Fly-class river gunboats (or small China gunboats), collectively often referred to as the "Tigris gunboat flotilla", were a class of small well-armed...
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    HMS Gnat (T60) (category Insect-class gunboats)
    HMS Gnat was a Royal Navy Insect-class gunboat. She was built by Lobnitz and launched in 1915. Gnat saw service during the First World War as part of a...
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    Dryad class Hazard (1894) Halcyon (1894) Harrier (1894) Hussar (1894) Dryad (1893) Bramble class (1898) Insect class (1915) The Insect-class gunboats were...
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    HMS Tarantula (category Insect-class gunboats)
    HMS Tarantula was an Insect-class gunboat of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1915, the gunboat saw service in both the First and Second World Wars. Tarantula...
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  • 1920. HMS Cricket (1915) was an Insect-class gunboat, launched in 1915. She was used as a minesweeper from 1939 and gunboat from 1940, before being scrapped...
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    re-equipped with small 625-long-ton (635 t), shallow-draught gunboats (12 ships of the Insect class) with sufficient speed to operate in fast-flowing rivers...
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  • in 1906. She was sunk by a mine in 1915. HMS Moth (1915) was an Insect-class gunboat launched in 1915. She was scuttled in 1941 but was salvaged by the...
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    Habbaniya, from whence he was flown to Basra and given refuge on the Insect-class gunboat HMS Cockchafer. On 1 April, Rashid Ali, along with four senior Army...
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    HMS Moth was an Insect-class gunboat of the Royal Navy. Entering service in 1916, Moth had a varied career with service in the Middle East, the White Sea...
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  • completed in 1896 and scrapped in 1919. HMS Locust (T28) was a Dragonfly-class river gunboat, launched in 1939 and broken up in 1968. Colledge, J. J.; Warlow...
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    HMS Cicala (category Insect-class gunboats)
    HMS Cicala was a Royal Navy Insect-class gunboat. She was built in 1915 for shallow water work, possibly on the Danube or in the Baltic Sea during the...
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  • Albacore-class gunboat, launched at North fleet in 1856 and sold at Newchang in 1871. HMS Grasshopper (1887) was a Grasshopper-class torpedo gunboat built...
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    HMS Grasshopper (T85) (category Dragonfly-class gunboats)
    station where she was deployed on the Yangtse River to relieve the Insect-class gunboat HMS Gnat. She remained there until the declaration of war by the...
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