WWI An un-named River Tigris gunboat fly-boat or small China gunboats, referred to as the "Tigris gunboat flotilla", were a Royal Navy vessels designed to patrol the Tigris river during the Mesopotamian Campaign in the the First World War . The fleet consisted of ships named after insects, namely Blackfly, Butterfly ,Caddisfly, Cranefly, Dragonfly, Firefly, Gadfly, Grayfly, Greenfly, Hoverfly, Mayfly, Sawfly, Sedgefly, Snakefly, Stonefly and Waterfly

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