Insect class river gunboat nHMS Tarantula (T 62): Launched Wood Skinner & Co. Ltd. Newcastle, England 08.12.15.Stationed at Trincomalee as a repair/accommodation ship. She briefly served as Admiral Bruce Fraser’s flagship of the British Pacific Fleet.Sunk as a gunnery target in the Bay of Bengal off Trincomalee by the destroyers HMS Carron and HMS Carysfort on 01.05.46.