&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:HMS_Gnat_China_Station_1922_IWM_Q_093287.jpg) HMS Gnat at China Station 1922
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Gnat |
| Builder | Lobnitz |
| Launched | 3 December 1915 |
| Identification | Pennant number: T60 |
| Fate | Constructive total loss, scrapped 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Insect-class gunboat |
| Displacement | 625 long tons (635 t) |
| Length | 237 ft 6 in (72.39 m) |
| Beam | 36 ft (11 m) |
| Draught | 4 ft (1.2 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 shaft VTE engines, 2 Yarrow type mixed firing boilers 2,000 ihp (1,500 kW) |
| Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement | 55 |
| Armament |
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| Armour | Improvised |
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 flotilla operating on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. After the war, the vessel was transferred to China, where in 1927, Gnat took part in the Nanking Incident. Gnat began the Second World War still in China, but was towed to the Mediterranean Sea in 1940. There, the gunboat took part in an assault on Tobruk before being torpedoed by a German submarine. Gnat did not sink, and was beached at Alexandria, Egypt where the vessel was used as an anti-aircraft platform. The vessel was declared a constructive total loss and scrapped in 1945.