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    The Grasshopper-class torpedo gunboat was a class of torpedo gunboat built for the Royal Navy in the late 19th century. All three ships were scrapped before...
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  • Grasshopper-class torpedo gunboat built in 1887 at Sheerness Dockyard and sold in 1905. HMS Grasshopper was to have been the name of a Cricket-class coastal...
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    late 19th century, torpedo gunboats were a form of gunboat armed with torpedoes and designed for hunting and destroying smaller torpedo boats. By the end...
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    The Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat was a class of torpedo gunboat built for the Royal Navy in the late 19th century. One of the class was hulked in 1904...
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  • 1872. She was broken up in 1883. HMS Sandfly (1887) was a Grasshopper-class torpedo gunboat launched in 1887. She was sold in 1905. HMS Sandfly (1906)...
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    HMS Seagull (1889) (category Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboats)
    prototype torpedo gunboat, Rattlesnake and the three Grasshopper-class torpedo gunboats, while carrying a heavier armament. As torpedo gunboats, they were...
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    of gunboat and gunvessel classes of the Royal Navy. For gun-brigs see List of gun-brigs of the Royal Navy. Diana (1823) Mohawk (1843) Bann class (1855)...
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    A number of torpedo gunboat classes followed, including the Grasshopper class, the Sharpshooter class, the Alarm class and the Dryad class – all built...
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    number of torpedo gunboat classes followed, including the Grasshopper class, the Sharpshooter class, the Alarm class, and the Dryad class – all built...
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  • HMS Gossamer (1890) (category Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboats)
    prototype torpedo gunboat, Rattlesnake and the three Grasshopper-class torpedo gunboat ships, while carrying a heavier armament. As torpedo gunboats, they...
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  • HMS Speedwell (1889) (category Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboats)
    preceding prototype torpedo gunboat, Rattlesnake and the three Grasshopper class ships, while carrying a heavier armament. As torpedo gunboats, they were intended...
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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...
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  • HMS Skipjack (1889) (category Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboats)
    preceding prototype torpedo gunboat, Rattlesnake and the three Grasshopper class ships, while carrying a heavier armament. As torpedo gunboats, they were intended...
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  • sisterships, Battle of Java Sea, 27 February – 1 March. HMS Grasshopper: British gunboat sunk in the Banka Strait by land-based aircraft, 14 February...
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    HMS Grasshopper, including Judy. Following the British declaration of war on Germany in September that year, several of the river gunboats, Grasshopper included...
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    HMS Rattlesnake (1886) (category Torpedo boats of the Royal Navy)
    HMS Rattlesnake was a unique design of torpedo gunboat of the Royal Navy. A result of the Russian war scare of 1885, she was designed by Nathaniel Barnaby...
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    Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy (category World War II gunboats)
    Class Fairmile Motor Torpedo Boats and Motor Gunboats 1939-1945, Sutton Publications Inc, ISBN 978-0-7509-2454-2 Reynolds, L. C. (2002) Motor Gunboat...
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  • Whitby". Leeds Mercury. No. 15288. Leeds. 8 April 1887. "Launch of a Russian Gunboat". The Times. No. 32043. London. 11 April 1887. col F, p. 3. "A New Steamer...
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    portrayed by C-class cruiser Curacoa, Destroyer Leader Broke, and Leander-class cruiser Neptune) Thunder Child (an "ironclad torpedo ram" from the 1898...
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    hull designations accounted for 116: 6 Miscellaneous Ships (AG), 14 Motor Torpedo Boat Tenders (AGP), 7 Self-Propelled Barracks Ships (APB), 13 Battle Damage...
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    Archer-class ships of 1,800 tons armed with 6-in guns capable of 16 knots costing around £105,000 each, accompanied by eight 150-ton torpedo boats priced...
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    sack. Judy was a ship's dog who had survived the sinking of the gunboat HMS Grasshopper on 14 February 1942, and spent more than two years in a PoW camp...
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    the Royal Navy were named HMS Mayfly: a torpedo boat launched in January 1907, and a Fly-class river gunboat constructed in sections at Yarrow in 1915...
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  • Roi and attack shipping in Kwajalein Atoll's lagoon, sinking a Japanese gunboat. In one of the largest U.S. Army Air Forces raids to date, 663 Eighth Air...
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    Grand Turk Grandmistress Grangermouth Granicus Grantham Graph Grappler Grasshopper Gravelines Grayfly Grays Great Barbara Great Bark Great Elizabeth Great...
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    slow-flying Piper J-3 Cub high-wing light civilian monoplane, the L-4 Grasshopper, usually used for liaison and artillery-spotting, began to be used in...
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  • destroyer class Minsk". Warshipsww2. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2014. "Soviet Union torpedo boat class Storm"...
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  • Retrieved 6 March 2012. "Sun". Uboat. Retrieved 27 March 2012. "U.S. Cutter Torpedoed Off Iceland". The Times. No. 49168. London. 24 February 1942. col D, p...
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