| Name: | SCARAB |
| Type: | River Gunboat |
| Launched: | 07/10/1915 |
| Completed: | 14/11/1915 |
| Builder: | Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Bill Quay |
| Yard Number: | 201 |
| Dimensions: | 625disp - 855disp, 230.0 x 36.0 x 4.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | VT3cyl, 2000ihp |
| Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 14.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 2 x 1 x 6.0ins, 1 x 12pdr AA, 10 x 1 x 0.3ins AA guns |
| History: | |
| 14/11/1915 | British Royal Navy |
| 05/1948 | Broken up |
| Comments: | An 'Insect Class' gunboat |
| Designed by Yarrow, with the propellers placed in tunnels because of the shallow draft | |
| They were in effect small monitors, being well armed for their displacement | |
| Designed for operations on the Danube against the Austro-Hungarian river flotilla | |
| However not required there when completed so served in other theaters | |
| 1946 to 1947: In service with the Burmese Navy | |
| 05/1948: Broken up at Singapore |
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Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum
Above photo is courtesy of Kevin Blair
Above photo is courtesy of the Stanley Hill Collection