Nine ships and two

shore establishment A stone frigate is a naval establishment on land. 'Stone frigate' is an informal term which has its origin in Britain's Royal Navy (RN), after its use of Diamond Rock, an island off Martinique, as a ' sloop of war' to harass the French in ...

s of the

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have borne the name HMS ''Gannet'', after the seabird the

Gannet Gannets are seabirds comprising the genus ''Morus'' in the family Sulidae, closely related to boobies. They are known as 'solan' or 'solan goose' in Scotland. A common misconception is that the Scottish name is 'guga' but this is the Gaelic n ...

Ships

* was a 16-gun

brig-sloop During the 18th and 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship of the Royal Navy with a single gun deck that carried up to 18 guns. The rating system of the Royal Navy covered all vessels with 20 or more guns; thus, the term encompassed all ...

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 A screw sloop is a propeller-driven sloop-of-war. They were popularized in the mid-19th century, during the introduction of the steam engine and the transition of fleets to this new technology. The sailing sloop The British sloop in the Age o ...

launched in 1857 and broken up in 1887. * was an screw sloop launched in 1878. She became a

training ship A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors. The term is mostly used to describe ships employed by navies to train future officers. Essentially there are two types: those used for training at sea and old hulks used to house class ...

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 A museum ship, also called a memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public for educational or memorial purposes. Some are also used for training and recruitment purposes, mostly for the small numb ...

in 1987 and is preserved in

dry dock A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, ...

Chatham Dockyard Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Established in Chatham, Kent, Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently expanded into neighbouring Gillingham, Kent, Gillingham; at its most extens ...

. * 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 ''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 A river gunboat is a type of gunboat adapted for river operations. River gunboats required shallow draft for river navigation. They would be armed with relatively small caliber cannons, or a mix of cannons and machine guns. If they carried more ...

launched in 1927 and transferred to the 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

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base in

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, between 1943 and 1959. * HMS ''Gannet II'' or as 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

station established in 1971 at RNAS Prestwick in

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Other ships

*''Gannet'' was a tug built for the

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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 '' Empire Gannet'' in 1956 and was sold in 1968.

References

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