HMS Dagger (P296)

HMS Dagger is a Cutlass-class patrol vessel fast patrol boat of the British Royal Navy. She is a fast patrol boat with a maximum speed around 41 kn designed for sovereignty protection and coastal security duties. She is part of the Royal Navy's Gibraltar Squadron and arrived in the territory in April 2022

Along with HMS Cutlass, she is replacing the Scimitar-class patrol vessel patrol vessels in Gibraltar. The Scimitar-class boats were deployed in Gibraltar after 2003 but were withdrawn from the territory in 2020, being then replaced by two Archer-class boats on an interim basis until the arrival of the Cutlass-class vessels.

On 14 July 2022, she was commissioned into the Royal Navy. In April 2023, Dagger was called upon to escort the Spanish patrol ship Infanta Cristina as she made an illegal transit. The 1713 Treaty of Utrecht that Spain was signed included ownership of the land and the waters of Gibraltar. In May 2023, HMS Dagger paid a foreign port visit to Tangier in Morocco.