Dragonfly-class gunboat

	HMS Locust, one of the class
Class overview
Name	Dragonfly class
Builders	Vosper Thornycroft, Yarrow Shipbuilders, J S White
Operators	Royal Navy
Subclasses	HMS Scorpion
Planned	6
Completed	5
Cancelled	1
Lost	4
General characteristics
Type	River gunboat
Displacement	585 long tons (594 t)
Length	197 ft (60 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draught	5 ft (1.5 m)
Installed power	3,800 shp (2,800 kW)
Propulsion	Geared steam turbines, 2 admiralty type boilers; Two shafts;
Speed	17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Complement	74
Armament	2 × 4 inches (100 mm) guns on single mountings; 1 × 3.7 inches (94 mm) howitzer; 8 × machine guns;

The Dragonfly class was a class of river gunboats. Six were planned and five were built: of those five, four were lost in the Second World War. One of the four was HMS Scorpion, a slightly upgunned and better powered version. The class consisted of:

HMS Dragonfly - lost in the Banka Strait, 14 February 1942.^[1]
HMS Grasshopper - lost in the Banka Strait, 14 February 1942.^[1]
HMS Locust - sold for scrap in 1968.
HMS Mosquito - lost on 1 June 1940, off Dunkirk.^[1]
HMS Scorpion - upgunned variant. Lost in the Banka Strait, 13 February 1942.^[1]
HMS Bee - cancelled, March 1940.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Cocker, Maurice (2006). Coastal Forces Vessels of the Royal Navy from 1865. Stroud: Tempus Publ. p. 101. ISBN 075243862X.

[Cocker-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Cocker, Maurice (2006). Coastal Forces Vessels of the Royal Navy from 1865. Stroud: Tempus Publ. p. 101. ISBN 075243862X.

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