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Nine ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Gannet'', after the seabird the Gannet:


Ships

* was a 16-gun brig-sloop purchased in 1800 and sold in 1814. * was an 18-gun brig-sloop launched in 1814 and sold in 1838. * was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1857 and broken up in 1887. * was an screw sloop launched in 1878. She became a training ship in 1903 and was renamed HMS ''President'', and was then lent as the training ship ''Mercury'', she was moored in Gosport, Hampshire for many years. She was transferred as a museum ship in 1987 and is preserved in dry dock at Chatham Dockyard. *HMS Nymphe (1888), HMS ''Gannet'' was a composite screw sloop launched in 1888 as ''Nymphe''. She became a base ship and was renamed ''Wildfire'' in 1906, renamed ''Gannet'' in 1916, and then ''Pembroke'' in 1917. She was sold in 1920. *HMS Trent (1877), HMS ''Gannet'' was a iron screw gunboat launched in 1877 as ''Trent''. She was renamed ''Pembroke'' in 1905, becoming a diving tender and being renamed ''Gannet'' in 1917. She was sold in 1923. * was a river gunboat launched in 1927 and transferred to the Republic of China Navy, Chinese Navy in 1942, being renamed ''Ying Shan''. She was on their lists until 1975.


Shore establishments

* HMS ''Gannet'' was the name assigned to RNAS Eglinton, a Fleet Air Arm base in Northern Ireland, between 1943 and 1959. * HMS ''Gannet II'' or as RNAS Maydown (HMS Shrike), RNAS Maydown (HMS ''Shrike'') was a Fleet Air Arm base from 1941 to 1947. * HMS ''Gadwell'' with designation HMS ''Gannet III'' when it was assigned as a tender to RNAS Eglinton in 1946. * is a Fleet Air Arm station established in 1971 at RNAS Prestwick in Ayrshire.


Other ships

*''Gannet'' was a tug built for the Colonial navies of Australia#Victoria, State of Victoria in 1884 and armed as an auxiliary gunboat. She was sold in 1905. *''LST 3006'' was launched in 1945 and commissioned as HMS ''Tromsø'' in 1947. She was transferred to the Ministry of Transport as ''List of Empire ships (G)#Suffix beginning with G, Empire Gannet'' in 1956 and was sold in 1968.


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