HMS Firefly

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 Forester-class gunboat.
  • HMS Firefly (1915), a British Fly-class gunboat.
  • HMT Firefly, a British trawler that operated between 1930 and 1961.

References
  1. "(untitled)". The Times (15802). London. 28 May 1835. col B, p. 3.
  2. 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.
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