HMS Mosquito explained

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

• was a vessel in service in 1777.
• was a 6-gun schooner, previously the French privateer Venus. She was captured in 1793, purchased by the Navy in 1794, and paid off in 1796.
• 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.
• was a 16-gun ship-sloop, previously the French privateer Petite Magicienne. She was captured by three Spanish frigates in September 1798.
• or Muskito was a 12-gun schooner captured from the French in 1799 and sold in 1802.
• was a launched in 1804 and sold in 1822.
• was a launched in 1825 and sold in 1843.
• was a 16-gun launched in 1851 and sold to the Prussian Navy in 1862.
• was a composite launched in 1871 and sold in 1888.
• was a paddle river gunboat launched in 1890 and sold in 1902.
• was a launched in 1910 and sold in 1920.
• was a launched in 1939 and sunk in 1940.
• was a naval base in Alexandria, Egypt during World War II

See also

• 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

• • Book: Vela, Rubén E . 2017 . Presas de la Armada Española 1779–1828: listado de buques apresados e incorporados a la Real Armada por apresamiento . 978-1-86176-030-2 . spanish.