Historic ship · Chatham · Kent

HMS Gannet

HMS Gannet is a 1878 Doterel-class screw sloop. Its place is inside Chatham’s built-up area. The site is run by Royal Navy.

Photo: HMS Gannet, Paul Englefield from Leamington Spa, UK (CC BY 2.0)

Where

In Chatham

inside the built-up area

Run by

Royal Navy

the operator on record

How well known

Top 16%

#1,300 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 17–23°C

In brief

Historic ship in Chatham

Inside Chatham

HMS Gannet is inside Chatham’s built-up area, with 27 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

The climate through the year

In Chatham, May to September bring the warmest days: highs of 17–23°C.

Jan8° / 2°67 mm

Feb8° / 2°55 mm

Mar11° / 3°45 mm

Apr14° / 5°48 mm

May17° / 8°52 mm

Jun20° / 11°51 mm

Jul23° / 13°46 mm

Aug22° / 13°59 mm

Sep19° / 11°57 mm

Oct15° / 8°80 mm

Nov11° / 5°80 mm

Dec8° / 2°75 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Chatham, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Chatham. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Chatham’s full climate →

About

HMS Gannet

6 Wikipedia editions have an article on it. Our list has 60 more places within 15 km; first among them is Rochester Cathedral, at 1.8 km.

Type: Historic ship
Run by: Royal Navy
Wikipedias: Covered in 6 languages
Town: in Chatham
Official site: thedockyard.co.uk/explore/three-historic-warships/hms-gannet

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Locating HMS Gannet

On this map, HMS Gannet is orange and its neighbours are numbered.

Towns near it

Towns within reach of HMS Gannet

Home to 108,485 people, Gillingham is the largest of these 8. The towns are in order of distance, its own town first.

1 · It’s in town

Chatham

76,956 people · 37 places to visit

2 · 200 m southeast of it

Gillingham

108,485 people · 33 places to visit

3 · 300 m southwest of it

Rochester

67,279 people · 34 places to visit

4 · 700 m north of it

Lower Upnor

837 people · 27 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where HMS Gannet is	People	Places to visit
Chatham	It’s in town	76,956	37
Gillingham	200 m southeast of it	108,485	33
Rochester	300 m southwest of it	67,279	34
Lower Upnor	700 m north of it	837	27
Chattenden	2.2 km north of it	2,417	24
Hoo St Werburgh	2.7 km northeast of it	8,758	25
Cliffe Woods	4 km northwest of it	2,689	18
Higham	4.4 km northwest of it	2,642	19

Make a day of it

Nearby, too

Of the 60 within 15 km, look for 3 castles, 3 historic ships and a cathedral.

CathedralRochester Cathedral1.8 km away 2

Castle · English HeritageRochester Castle1.9 km away 3

Castle · English HeritageUpnor Castle1.2 km away 4

Historic shipHMS Cavalier100 m away 5

Historic shipHMS Ocelot100 m away 6

Historic shipRussian Foxtrot B-39 (U 475)1.6 km away 7

MuseumRoyal Engineers Museum900 m away 8

CastlePS Kingswear Castle200 m away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Questions about HMS Gannet

Where is HMS Gannet?

HMS Gannet is in Chatham, Kent, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is HMS Gannet?

1878 Doterel-class screw sloop.

Who runs HMS Gannet?

Royal Navy.

When is the best time to visit HMS Gannet?

May to September are the warmest months in Chatham, with afternoon highs of 17–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near HMS Gannet?

Within 15 km: Rochester Cathedral (1.8 km), Rochester Castle (1.9 km), Upnor Castle (1.2 km) and HMS Cavalier (100 m).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (9)

HMS Gannet: Paul Englefield from Leamington Spa, UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Rochester Cathedral: Raggatt2000, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Rochester Castle: Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Upnor Castle: Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
HMS Cavalier: en:User:Swpmre, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
HMS Ocelot: Mark.murphy at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Russian Foxtrot B-39 (U 475): Hammersfan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Royal Engineers Museum: Immanuel Giel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
PS Kingswear Castle: Robert Mason, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

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