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Latest revision as of 20:38, 6 April 2018

H.M.S. Gadfly (1915)
Builder: Yarrow & Company[1]
Ordered: 2 1915[2]
Launched: 23 Dec, 1915[3]
Transferred: 1922[4]
Fate: to Air Ministry at Basra

H.M.S. Gadfly was one of 16 gunboats of the Fly class.

Service

Paid off 21 March, 1918.[5]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 106.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 106.
  3. Ship's log of Alert.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 106.
  5. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 777.
  6. The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 394o.
  7. The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 393x.

Bibliography


Fly Class Gunboat
First Order
Butterfly Cranefly Dragonfly Firefly Gadfly
Grayfly Greenfly Mayfly Sawfly Snakefly
  Stonefly Waterfly  
Second Order
  Blackfly Caddisfly Hoverfly Sedgefly  
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