HMS Grasshopper
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HMS Grasshopper, was the name given to several boats, stations and ships of the Royal Navy
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was a launched in 1806 and stranded at Texel
Texel
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 on Christmas Day 1811. She was captured the next day and taken into Dutch service as Irene until 1822. was a second launched in 1813 and converted to a ship-sloop in 1822. She was 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 and which served in the Gallipoli campaign. She was sold for breaking on 1 November 1921. was a . She was launched in 1938 and sunk, together with her sister-ship HMS Dragonfly, by Japanese forces south of Singapore
    Singapore
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     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.
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