Eight vessels and one shore station of the Royal Navy were named HMS Grasshopper, named for the grasshopper, a common type of herbivorous insect.
HMS Grasshopper (1776) was a 14-gun sloop. She was renamed HMS Basilisk in 1779 and converted to a fireship; Basilisk was sold in 1783.
HMS Grasshopper (1806) was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1806 and stranded at Texel on Christmas Day 1811. She was captured the next day and taken into Dutch service as Irene until she was broken up in 1822.
HMS Grasshopper (1813) was the second Cruizer-class brig-sloop of that name; launched in 1813, she was converted to a ship-sloop in 1822 and sold in 1832. She then became a whaler in the British Southern Whale Fisheries, making four voyages between 1832 and 1847.
HMS Grasshopper (1856) was a Albacore-class gunboat, launched at North fleet in 1856 and sold at Newchang in 1871.
HMS Grasshopper (1887) was a Grasshopper-class torpedo gunboat built in 1887 at Sheerness Dockyard and sold in 1905.
HMS Grasshopper was to have been the name of a Cricket-class coastal destroyer (later downgraded to first-class torpedo boat), but before launch in 1907 she was renamed Torpedo Boat Number 9. She was lost in July 1916 in a collision in the North Sea.
HMS Grasshopper (1909) was a Beagle-class destroyer, launched at Fairfield in 1909, that served in the Gallipoli Campaign. She was sold for breaking up on 1 November 1921.
HMS Grasshopper (T85) was a Dragonfly-class river gunboat. She was launched in 1938 and sunk, together with her sister-ship HMS Dragonfly, by Japanese forces south of Singapore on 14 February 1942 with heavy loss of life.
HMS Grasshopper was the name of the Royal Navy base at Weymouth, Dorset during World War II.
named HMSGrasshopper, named for the grasshopper, a common type of herbivorous insect. HMSGrasshopper (1776) was a 14-gun sloop. She was renamed HMS Basilisk...
fireship, previously the 14-gun sloop HMSGrasshopper. She was renamed HMS Basilisk in 1779 and was sold in 1783. HMS Basilisk (1801) was a 12-gun Bloodhound-class...
officers, Commander Denis 'Lofty' Sprague, captain of HMS Thames, and Lieutenant Patrick Griffiths of HMS Rorqual, and French warrant officer mechanic Yves...
12 Feb: HMS Maori, Skanderbeg, V-1302 John Mahn 13 Feb: HMS Tempest 14 Feb: HMSGrasshopper, HMS Li Wo, President Taylor, Vyner Brooke 15 Feb: HNLMS Van...
12 Feb: HMS Maori, Skanderbeg, V-1302 John Mahn 13 Feb: HMS Tempest 14 Feb: HMSGrasshopper, HMS Li Wo, President Taylor, Vyner Brooke 15 Feb: HNLMS Van...
Richard E. Borton, was augmented by reservists, some survivors of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse and European and Malay professional sailors. On 14 February...
HMS Li Wo was an auxiliary patrol vessel of the British Royal Navy, which was sunk on 14 February 1942 by Japanese warships as she single-handedly attacked...
targets. Tembien was spotted by Lieutenant Commander David Wanklyn's submarine HMS Upholder. Two of Wanklyn's torpedoes struck the Tembien, causing her to sink...