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OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

"FLY" river gunboats

Butterfly 1915

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Blackfly   Yarrow, Scotstoun / Abadan, Iraq 12/1915 1916 4/1916 collision 26/5/1923
Butterfly   Yarrow, Scotstoun / Abadan, Iraq 2/1915 1915 7/1915 sold 1923
Caddisfly   Yarrow, Scotstoun / Abadan, Iraq 12/1915 1916 4/1916 sold 1923
Cranefly   Yarrow, Scotstoun / Abadan, Iraq 2/1915 1915 7/1915 sold 1923
Dragonfly   Yarrow, Scotstoun / Abadan, Iraq 2/1915 1915 7/1915 sold 1923
Firefly   Yarrow, Scotstoun / Abadan, Iraq 2/1915 1915 7/1915 sunk 14/6/1924
Gadfly   Yarrow, Scotstoun / Abadan, Iraq 2/1915 1915 8/1915 to Air Ministry 1922
Grayfly   Yarrow, Scotstoun / Abadan, Iraq 2/1915 1915 8/1915 to War Department 1923
Greenfly   Yarrow, Scotstoun / Abadan, Iraq 2/1915 1915 9/1915 sold 1923
Hoverfly   Yarrow, Scotstoun / Abadan, Iraq 11/1915 1916 4/1916 sold 1923
Mayfly   Yarrow, Scotstoun / Abadan, Iraq 2/1915 1915 8/1915 sold 1923
Sawfly   Yarrow, Scotstoun / Abadan, Iraq 2/1915 1915 8/1915 sold 1923
Sedgefly   Yarrow, Scotstoun / Abadan, Iraq 11/1915 1916 9/1916 sold 1923
Snakefly   Yarrow, Scotstoun / Abadan, Iraq 2/1915 1915 9/1915 sold 1923
Stonefly   Yarrow, Scotstoun / Abadan, Iraq 2/1915 1915 9/1915 sold 1923
Waterfly   Yarrow, Scotstoun / Abadan, Iraq 2/1915 1915 9/1915 sold 1923

 

 

Displacement normal, t

98

Displacement full, t

  

Length, m

38.4

Breadth, m

6.10

Draught, m

0.60

No of shafts

1 in tunnel

Machinery

 1 VTE, 1 Yarrow boiler

Power, h. p.

175

Max speed, kts

9.5

Fuel, t

coal 5 + oil 10

Armament

1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, 1 x 1 - 76/40 QF Mk I HA, 1 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss (in some), 1 x 1 - 47/50 Vickers AA, 1 x 1 - 40/39 pompom, (4 - 5) x 1 - 7.7/94

Complement

 22

Ship project history: Tunnel-screw type ships served on Mesopotamic front, acted on Tiger and Euphrates.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Firefly 1/12/1915 was captured by Turks but 26/2/1917 again has got to British and 14/6/1924 has been sunk by the Iraq rebels. Blackfly was lost 26/8/1923, having flown on a bridge footing in Baghdad.

Sedgefly

 

 

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