HMS Ant

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ant:

HMS Ant was an 8-gun schooner, formerly the French Arabe, captured 1797 and renamed HMS Arab, renamed Ant 1798, sold 1815.
HMS Ant (1815) was a 2-gun cutter, launched 1815, used as a tender, in dockyard service from 1817, later as Royal Victoria Yard Craft No.1, sold 1869.
HMS Ant (1856) was a Cheerful class gunboat, launched 1856, broken up 1869.
HMS Ant (1862) was a gunboat, ex-merchant ship, bought 1862, used on the New Zealand station, sold 1864.
HMS Ant (1873) was an Ant class gunboat launched 1873, used as boom defence vessel 1917, as target 1921, broken up 1926.
HMS Ant (1913) was a tender, launched 1913, sold 1924, converted to excursion steamer Rangitoto in New Zealand, broken up 1968.

References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.

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