Fly-class gunboat
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Script error: No such module "Infobox ship". The Fly-class river gunboats (or small China gunboats), collectively often referred to as the "Tigris gunboat flotilla", were a class of small well-armed Royal Navy vessels designed to patrol the Tigris river during the Mesopotamian Campaign during the First World War (the China name was to disguise their function).[a]
Design
They were fitted with one triple expansion steam engine driving one propeller housed in a tunnel to facilitate a very shallow [[[:Template:Cvt]]] draught. The boats were designed to be dismantled and re-assembled.
Deployment
The vessels were built by Yarrow Shipbuilders at Scotstoun, Glasgow in 1915 and 1916 and shipped to Abadan in sections where they were assembled. They served with the Royal Navy patrolling the Tigris River until being transferred to the Army during 1918. They were sold off beginning 1923.
The Ottomans captured Firefly in December 1915 after she grounded and a shell through her boiler disabled her; her crew was evacuated. The Ottomans took her into service as Suleiman Pak. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data' not found. recaptured her in a small skirmish known as the Battle of Nahr-al-Kalek on 26 February 1917, in the immediate aftermath of the Second Battle of Kut.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Vessels
Vessels with the prefix "HM Gunboat"
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- Blackfly
- Butterfly
- Caddisfly
- Cranefly
- Dragonfly
- Firefly
- Gadfly
- Grayfly
- Greenfly
- Hoverfly
- Mayfly
- Sawfly
- Sedgefly
- Snakefly
- Stonefly
- Waterfly
See also
Notes
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Citations
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References
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Atherton, D. (2003). "Question 25/01". Warship International. XL (2): 138–141. ISSN 0043-0374.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Atherton, D.; Caruana, J. (2002). "Question 25/01". Warship International. XXXIX (2): 133–135. ISSN 0043-0374.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Atherton, D. (2004). "Question 25/01: British Fly Class Gunboats". Warship International. XLI (2): 135–139. ISSN 0043-0374.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds. (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-907-3 – via Archive Foundation.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Nunn, Wilfred (2007) [1932]. Tigris Gunboats: The Forgotten War in Iraq 1914–1917. Chatham. ISBN 978-1-86176-308-2.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Perrett, Bryan (2000). Gunboats: Small Ships at War (1st ed.). London: Cassell. ISBN 978-0-304-35302-6.
External links
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- British Forces in Mesopotamia not including Kut Al Amara 3 January 1916 Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- "The Tigris Flotilla", at Great War Primary Document Archive
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