HMS Moth

Last updated December 30, 2021

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Moth after the insect, the Moth:

HMS Moth (1907) was a coastal destroyer launched in 1907. She had been renamed TB 12 in 1906. She was sunk by a mine in 1915.
HMS Moth (1915) was an Insect-class gunboat launched in 1915. She was scuttled in 1941 but was salvaged by the Japanese and recommissioned with the Imperial Japanese Navy as Suma. She was sunk by a mine in 1945.

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HMS Moth was an Insect-class gunboat of the Royal Navy. Entering service in 1916, Moth had a varied career with service in the Middle East, the White Sea and the Far East in two world wars. Scuttled in World War II during the invasion of Hong Kong, the ship was raised and put into service by the Imperial Japanese Navy as Suma (須磨). The ship remained active throughout the war, before striking a naval mine in the Yangtze River in 1945 and sinking.

HMS TB 12 was a Cricket-class coastal destroyer or torpedo-boat of the British Royal Navy. TB 12 was built by the shipbuilder Yarrow from 1905 to 1907. She was used for local patrol duties in the First World War and was sunk by a German mine in the North Sea on 10 June 1915.

Two warships of Japan have borne the name Suma :

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