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TORPEDO SHIPS

POTÍ torpedo boat (1893)

Names

Potí (ex-Javelin)

Builders

Herreshoff, Bristol, UK: Potí

Commissioned

1893: Potí

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

1900: Potí

  

Displacement normal, t

30

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

38.4

Breadth, m

3.66

Draught, m

0.91

No of shafts

1

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

18

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 1 Howell TT

Complement

 

Project history: Built as the yacht Javelin and bought by Brazil and renamed Potí in 1893. She was fitted with the unsuccessful Howell flywheel torpedo.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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