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SARPEN gunboat (1861)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Sarpen     MV Horten   8.12.1860 1861 stricken 1918

 

Displacement normal, t

220

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

 

Breadth, m

 

Draught, m

 

No of shafts

1

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

coal
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 150/18 5.75tomme 87crt Finspång banded MLR

Complement  

 

Project history: Small coastal gunboat.

Modernizations: 1893, converted to command vessel armed with 2 x 1 - 65/50 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 37/45 Hotchkiss

Naval service: From 1918 Sarpen was used as submarine salvage vessel till 1940.

Many thanks to Kent Crawford for correction of information.

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