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VALE gunboats (1874-1877)

Vale 1914

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Vale     MV Horten   14.4.1874 1874 captured by Germany 13.5.1940
Uller     MV Horten   21.7.1876 1877 captured by Germany 10.4.1940 (Uller)

 

Displacement normal, t

229

Displacement full, t

?

Length, m

27.3

Breadth, m

7.90

Draught, m

2.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VC, 2 boilers

Power, h. p.

200

Max speed, kts

8

Fuel, t

coal 22
Endurance, nm(kts) 600(8)

Armament

1 x 1 - 267/14 Armstrong 19.7-ton MLR No.2, 1 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 2 x 5 - 37/27 Hotchkiss

Complement 38

 

Project history: Coastal gunboats of so-called "Elswick" type.

Modernizations: 1913, both were converted to minelayers: - 1 x 1 - 267/14; + 1 x 1 - 120/44 Armstrong Y, 50 mines; displacement rose to 238/250t

Naval service: Uller was captured by German troops off Bergen, commissioned by Germans under own name and 2.5.1940 sunk by Norwegian aircraft in the Sogne-fjord. Vale was 13.5.1940 captured by German minesweeper М1 off Bremanger, commissioned by Germans as auxiliary.

Vale 1934

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