Career (United Kingdom)
Name:	HMS Peterel
Builder:	Yarrow Shipbuilders
In service:	1927-07-18
Fate:	Sunk 1941-12-08, Shanghai
General characteristics
Type:	River gunboat
Displacement:	310 tons
Length:	177 feet (53. Yarrow (Shipbuilders Limited (YSL often styled as simply Yarrows, was a major shipyard now part of BVT Surface Fleet, a joint venture between BAE Systems Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 390 BC - Roman - Gaulish Wars Battle of the Allia - a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room the second public library of Europe. Shanghai ( 上[[wikt 海|海]] is the largest city in China in terms of population and one of the largest urban areas in the world with over 20 million A foot (plural feet or foot; symbol or abbreviation ft or sometimes &prime – the prime symbol) is a non-SI unit 9 m)
Beam:	29 feet (8. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International 8 m)
Draught:	3. 2 feet (1. 0 m)
Propulsion:	Yarrow boilers, steam turbine 2,250 hp
Speed:	16 knots
Complement:	55
Armament:	2×3" AA guns, 8×machine guns

HMS Peterel was a river gunboat built by Yarrow Shipbuilders at Scotstoun for service on the China station which entered service on 1927-07-18. A river gunboat is a type of Gunboat adapted for River operations Yarrow (Shipbuilders Limited (YSL often styled as simply Yarrows, was a major shipyard now part of BVT Surface Fleet, a joint venture between BAE Systems Scotstoun is a historic district of Glasgow, Scotland, west of Glasgow City Centre The China Station was a historical geographical Area of operations of the British Royal Navy 's China Squadron. Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 390 BC - Roman - Gaulish Wars Battle of the Allia - a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, Her name was a mistake - she should have been named Petrel as per the bird, but this was not noticed until after she had been launched. No attempt was made to correct it.

Peterel was the first Royal Navy vessel to be sunk by the Japanese navy in World War II, being sunk by the Japanese cruiser Idzumo on 1941-12-08 at Shanghai after refusing to surrender. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room the second public library of Europe. At the time she was acting as a communications station manned only by a skeleton crew. The term skeleton crew is used to indicate the minimum number of personnel needed to operate and maintain an item at its most simple operating requirements such as a ship or business

References

• Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). James Joseph Colledge (born 1908 was a noted naval Historian, author of Ships of the Royal Navy, the standard work on the fighting ships of the British Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. For a list of ships of the Royal Navy, see List of Royal Navy ships. ed. , London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose  
• H.M.S. Falcon - Royal Navy Gunboats in China and the Far East. Retrieved on 2008-01-28. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The Excommunication of Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor is lifted