HMS Cricket

HMS Cricket

Two ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Cricket", after the cricket, an insect native to Britain:

*HMS "Cricket" was a "Cricket" class coastal destroyer, launched in 1906. She was re-rated as a torpedo boat that year and renamed "TB 1". She was sold in 1920.
*HMS "Cricket" was an Insect class gunboat, launched in 1915. She was used as a minesweeper from 1939 and gunboat from 1940, before being scrapped in 1942.

*HMS "Cricket" was a shore establishment in Hampshire, commissioned in 1943 and paid off in 1946.


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