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ARUBA 4 class screw ship (1873)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Aruba     Rijkswerf Amsterdam   1873 1873 stricken 1909?

  

Displacement normal, t

770

Displacement full, t

786

Length, m

45.0 pp 50.0 oa

Breadth, m

9.00

Draught, m

3.79 mean

No of shafts

1

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

413

Max speed, kts

9.5

Fuel, t

coal 100

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 149/22 Krupp No.1, 2 x 1 - 120/16 Krupp No.1

Complement

 

Project history: Composite-hulled seagoing gunboat, intended for colonial service.

Modernizations: 1880s: + 1 x 1 - 75/5 Krupp mortar, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss

Naval service: No significant events.

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