High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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. 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. At the time she was acting as a communications station manned only by a skeleton crew.

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