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TORPEDO SHIPS

I torpedo boat (1875)

I 1875

Names

I (Yard no 32)

Builders

Thornycroft, Chiswick, UK: I

Completed

1875: I

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1907: I

 

Displacement normal, t

8

Displacement full, t

10

Length, m

20.7

Breadth, m

2.61

Draught, m

1.23

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VSE, 1 locomotive boiler

Power, h. p.

184

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 spar torpedoes

Complement

9

Project history: Thornycroft-built prototype, launched 19.6.1875. In service the boat reached only 13kts at 90hp.

Modernizations: 1893: - spar torpedoes; + light gun

Naval service: In 1893 Torpedoboot I was transferred to Danube Flotilla to serve as patrol boat.

I 1900

© Ivan Gogin, 2014