HMS Firefly
Appearance
At least four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Firefly:
- HMS Firefly (1828), a schooner wrecked on 27 February 1835 on the Northern Triangles, off Belize with the loss of thirteen of her 23 crew.[1][2]
- HMS Firefly (1832), a Firefly-class gunboat, re-engined in 1844 with the engine from HMS Phoenix and became a survey ship.
- HMS Firefly (1877), a British Template:Sclass-.
- HMS Firefly (1915), a British Template:Sclass2-.
- HMT Firefly, a British trawler that operated between 1930 and 1961.
References
- ^ "(untitled)". The Times. No. 15802. London. 28 May 1835. col B, p. 3. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
- ^ Gilly, William O.S. (1850). Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy: between 1793 and 1849, by William Octavius Shakespeare Gilly. London: John W. Parker, West Strand. Retrieved 27 February 2015.