HMS Gannet

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

Ships

• HMS Gannet was a 16-gun brig-sloop purchased in 1800 and sold in 1814.
• HMS Gannet was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1814 and sold in 1838.
• HMS Gannet was a wood screw sloop launched in 1857 and broken up in 1887.
• HMS Gannet was an Doterel-class 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 transferred as a museum ship in 1987 and is preserved in dry dock at Chatham Dockyard.
• HMS Gannet was a iron screw gunboat built in 1888 and put up for sale in 1905.
• HMS Gannet was a composite screw sloop launched in 1888 as HMS Nymphe. She became a base ship and was renamed HMS Wildfire in 1906, renamed HMS Gannet in 1916, and then HMS Pembroke in 1917. She was sold in 1920.
• HMS Gannet was an iron screw gunboat launched in 1877 as HMS Trent. She was renamed HMS Pembroke in 1905, becoming a diving tender and being renamed HMS Gannet in 1917. She was sold in 1923.
• HMS Gannet was a river gunboat 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 Fleet Air Arm base in Northern Ireland, between 1943 and 1959.
• HMS Gannet is a Fleet Air Arm station established in 1971 at RNAS Prestwick in Ayrshire.