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Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Gnat'' after the insect. *The first ''Gnat'' was a Cheerful class gunboat built at Laird's shipyard and launched on 10 May 1856. She was broken up in August 1864. *The second ''Gnat'' was a composite screw gunvessel launched at Pembroke Dockyard on 26 November 1867. She was wrecked on Balabac Island in the South China Sea on 15 November 1868. * The third ''Gnat'' was a small coastal destroyer launched by Thornycroft at Chiswick on 1 December 1906 and sold for scrapping on 9 May 1921. * The most recent ''Gnat'' was an Insect class gunboat launched by Lobnitz and Co. Shipyard at Renfrew in Scotland on 3 December 1915. She was torpedoed by a submarine on 21 October 1941 and beached at Alexandria, where she was converted to a fixed anti-aircraft platform. She was broken up in 1945. ==References== * *(U-Boat.net ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Gnat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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