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OPALE river gunboats (1892-1893)

Names

Opale

Onyx

Builders

 

Completed

1892: Opale

1893: Onyx

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1900s: Opale, Onyx

 

Displacement normal, t

60

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

 

Breadth, m

 

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

 

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 37/20 M1885

Complement

34

Project history: Small gunboats for Chinese rivers.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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