HMS Mosquito

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Mosquito, or the archaic HMS Musquito, after the tropical insect, the Mosquito:

• HMS Musquito was a vessel in service in 1777.
• HMS Musquito was a 6-gun schooner, previously the French privateer Venus. She was captured in 1793, purchased by the Navy in 1794 and captured by the Spanish in 1799.
• HMS Musquito was the name vessel for the two-vessel Musquito class of floating batteries; she was launched in 1794 but wrecked in June 1795.
• HMS Musquito or Muskito was a 12-gun schooner captured from the French in 1799 and sold in 1802.
• HMS Musquito was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1804 and sold in 1822.
• HMS Musquito was a Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1825 and sold in 1843.
• HMS Musquito was a 16-gun Helena-class brig launched in 1851 and sold to the Prussian Navy in 1862.
• HMS Mosquito was a composite Ariel-class gunboat launched in 1871 and sold in 1888.
• HMS Mosquito was a paddle river gunboat launched in 1890 and sold in 1902.
• HMS Mosquito was a Beagle-class destroyer launched in 1910 and sold in 1920.
• HMS Mosquito was a Dragonfly-class river gunboat launched in 1939 and sunk in 1940.
• HMS Mosquito (shore establishment) was a naval base in Alexandria, Egypt during World War II

See also

• HMQS Mosquito was a torpedo boat launched in 1884. She served in the Queensland Maritime Defence Force and (after federation) the Commonwealth Naval Forces and was sold in 1912.

References

• Winfield, Rif & Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555. 
• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.