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Class overview
Name:
Dragonfly class Builders:
Vosper Thornycroft, Yarrow Shipbuilders , J S White Operators:
Royal Navy Subclasses:
HMS Scorpion Built:
1937-1938
In commission:
1938-1968 Planned:
6 Completed:
5 Cancelled:
1 Lost:
4 Retired:
1 Scrapped:
1
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:
2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
3,800 shp (2,800 kW) Propulsion:
2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines Speed:
17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) Complement:
74 Armament:
2 × single 4 in (102 mm) guns
1 × single 3.7 in (94 mm) Mark V howitzer
8 × machine guns
The Dragonfly classclass of twin shaft[2] river gunboats of the Royal Navy. 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.
Ships [ ]
Ship name
Laid down
Completed
Fate
Notes
Dragonfly December 1937
June 1939
Lost in the Banka Strait, 14 February 1942.[1]
Grasshopper December 1937
June 1939
Lost in the Banka Strait, 14 February 1942.[1]
Locust November 1938
May 1940
Sold for scrap, 1968[1]
A quadruple 2-pound "pompom" gun was fitted instead of the 3.7 (94 mm) howitzer.[2] Later refitted with 3 20 mm guns and 20 depth charges. became a headquarters ship in 1944.
Mosquito December 1938
April 1940
Lost off Dunkirk, 1 June 1940[1]
A quadruple 2-pound "pompom" gun was fitted instead of the 3.7 (94 mm) howitzer.[2]
Scorpion 1937
November 1938
Lost in the Banka Strait, 13 February 1942.[1]
Was an upgunned variant of the class
Bee
n/a
n/a
Cancelled, March 1940[1]
References [ ]
Royal Navy