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Eight vessels and one shore station of the Royal Navy were named HMS ''Grasshopper'', named for the grasshopper, a common type of herbivorous insect. * was a 14-gun sloop. She was renamed HMS ''Basilisk'' in 1779 and converted to a fireship; ''Basilisk'' was sold in 1783. * was a 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. * was the second of that name; launched in 1813, she was converted to a ship-sloop in 1822 and sold in 1832. * was a , launched at North fleet in 1856 and sold at Newchang in 1871. * was a 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. * was a , launched at Fairfield in 1909, that served in the Gallipoli Campaign. She was sold for breaking up on 1 November 1921. * was a 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. ==References== * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Grasshopper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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