INSECT-Class River Gunboat ordered from Wood Skinner of Newcastle on 29th February 1915 and launched on 7th October 1915 as the 1st RN ship to carry this name. Build was completed …

2018年4月4日 · Launched 7.10.15 Wood Skinner. 645 tons, 237 (oa), 230 (pp)x36x4ft. TE 2000ihp,14kts, twin screws in tunnels. Armament: 2-6in, 2-12pdr. Crew: 53. Mediterranean 1916-17, Mesopotamia 1917-18. Battle Honour (and link to despatches, casualties, awards) Mesopotamia 1917. Served in WW2. BU 5.48 at Singapore. (British Warships 1914-1919) 1.

During the night three of the destroyers, HMS Quilliam, HMS Quail and HMS Queenborough (Cdr. E.P. Hinton, DSO and Bar, MVO, RN), patrolled south-east of the Straits of Messina and coastal forces north of Messina and off the south Calabrian coast to guard against interference with enemy surface forces.

Scarab and Cricket were off Nanking in 1937 as the Japanese started to bomb the city. In 1939, the original two 6 inch Mk VII 45-calibre guns on Aphis and Ladybird were replaced by more modern and 30 in (76 cm) longer 6-inch Mk XIII 50-calibre guns from the decommissioned battleship Agincourt.

H.M.S. Scarab was one of twelve "Insect" class gunboats of the Royal Navy. She spent much of her career stationed on the Yangtse River.

From March to November, 1940, Cricket, Gannet, Aphis, Ladybird, Cockchafer, and Scarab worked their painful way a third of the distance around the earth, coast- hugging, port-hopping, sometimes towed, to the Middle East, where all took part in numerous bombardments and fought off air attacks from Iraq to North Africa to Italy providing ...

A so-called large China gunboat. Completed in 1915, displacement 645 ton, horsepower 2.000 hp, coal and oil-fired reciprocating machinery an...

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The following article is taken from the June and March issues of Yangtze and Sikiang Patroller, journal of the United States Yangtze River Patrol Association. A number of RAN officers ...

HMS Scarab Name : HMS Scarab Laid Down : 29th February 1915 Launched : 7th October 1915 Completed : 14th November 1915 Type : Gunboat Class : Insect Builder : Wood, Skinner & Company, Newcastle upon Tyne Country : UK Pennants : Fate : Sold 1948