Dragonfly-class gunboat

	HMS Locust
Class overview
Name	Dragonfly class
Builders	Vosper Thornycroft, Yarrow Shipbuilders, J S White
Operators	Royal Navy
Subclasses	HMS Scorpion
Built	1937-1938
In commission	1938-1968
Planned	6
Completed	5
Cancelled	1
Lost	4
Retired	1
Scrapped	1
General characteristics
Type	River gunboat
Displacement	585 long tons (594 t)
Length	197 ft (60 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draught	5 ft (1.5 m)
Installed power	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers ; 3,800 shp (2,800 kW);
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 geared steam turbines
Speed	17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Complement	74
Armament	2 × single 4 in (102 mm) guns; 1 × single 3.7 in (94 mm) Mark V howitzer; 8 × machine guns;

The Dragonfly class was a class of twin shaft river gunboats of the Royal Navy. Six were planned and five were built: of those five, four were lost in the Second World War. One of the four was HMS Scorpion, a slightly upgunned and better powered version.

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