Firefly, 1906
Type: Torpedo Boat ; former Coastal Destroyer ; Armament 2 - 12 pdr., 3 - 18 inch tubes.
Launched : 1 Sep 1906 ; Disposal date or year : Oct 1920
Displacement: 261 tons
Complement: 35
Machinery notes: H.P. 3600 = 26 kts Parsons turbine. Oil fuel : 44 / 37 tons. 3750-3600 hp ; Speed ; 26 knots ;
Notes:

5 White boats : 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (1906). 261 tons.

Were originally named in order given Spider, Sandfly, Firefly Dragonfly. Cricket.

To distinguish.- Tubes before and abaft first funnel. No tube before after 13 pdr. position. Funnels wide apart?

Aug 1914 Seventh [Torpedo Boat] Flotilla, Tender to Leander

Firefly, 1915
Type: River gunboat (in the Tigris) ;
Re-built from sections sent out from Yarrow : Nov 1915 ;
Notes:

21 Nov 1915 moved from advanced base at Lajj - see p. 324 www.naval-review.org/issues/1916-2.pdf for details as to how employed in the Tigris.

1 Dec 1915 abandoned to the Turks.

26 Feb 1917 recovered from the Turks.

1924 Sunk by insurgents.