HMS Grasshopper

HMS Grasshopper, was the name given to several boats, stations and ships of the Royal Navy.

• HMS Grasshopper was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1806 and stranded at Texel on Christmas Day 1811. She was captured the next day and taken into Dutch service as Irene until 1822.
• HMS Grasshopper was a second Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1813 and converted to a ship-sloop in 1822. She was sold in 1832.
• HMS Grasshopper was a Albacore-class gunboat, launched at North fleet in 1856 and sold at Newchang in 1871.
• HMS Grasshopper was a Grasshopper-class torpedo gunboat built in 1887 at Sheerness Dockyard and sold in 1905.
• HMS Grasshopper was to have been the name of a Cricket-class coastal destroyer (later downgraded to first-class torpedo boat), but before launch in 1907 she was renamed Torpedo Boat Number 9. She was lost in July 1916 in a collision in the North Sea.
• HMS Grasshopper was a Beagle-class destroyer, launched at Fairfield in 1909 and which served in the Gallipoli campaign. She was sold for breaking on 1 November 1921.
• HMS Grasshopper was a Locust-class gunboat. She was launched in 1938 and sunk, together with her sister-ship HMS Dragonfly, by Japanese forces south of Singapore on 14 February 1942 with heavy loss of life.
• HMS Grasshopper was the name of the Royal Navy base at Weymouth, Dorset during World War II.

References

• Winfield, Rif; Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.