Ant-class gunboat

The Ant-class gunboat was a class of twenty-four Royal Navy flat-iron gunboats mounting a single 10-inch gun, built between 1870 and 1880. They carried no masts or sails, being among the first Royal Navy vessels not to do so. The last four vessels were ordered separately and are sometimes known as the Gadfly class, although they were essentially identical. Members of the class lingered on as steam lighters, dredgers, boom defence vessels and base ships, lasting in some cases into the 1950s.

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1870 — 1959  Wikimedia, Wikidata
gunboat, Cammell Laird, Royal Navy, 

HMS Ant, HMSAS Afrikander, watercraft class, 

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  HMS Ant ⓘ
  1873 Ant-class gunboat

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  HMSAS Afrikander ⓘ
  1879 Gadfly-class flat-iron gunboat

Frameless

HMS Bustard (1871) IWM SP 000211

HMS arrow flatiron

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
link	page		Dreadnought Project page@		Wikidata
object	watercraft		HMS Ant	Ant-class gunboat, gunboat	Wikidata
object	watercraft		HMSAS Afrikander	gunboat, Ant-class gunboat	Wikidata
commons	image		HMS Bustard (1871) IWM SP 000211		Commons
commons	image		HMS arrow flatiron		Commons