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LIMPOPO gunboat (1890)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Limpopo     Thames Iron Works, Blackwall, UK   1890 1890 discarded 1943
  

Displacement normal, t

288

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

37.8

Breadth, m

6.40

Draught, m

2.00

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VC, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

520

Max speed, kts

11.3

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 65/40 H(tr)65/43

Complement

42

Project history: Colonial gunboat intended for service on Limpopo river in Africa. Iron hulled.

Modernizations: 1900s: - 1 x 1 - 65/40; + 2 x 1 - 47/40 H(tr)47/43

1920s: - 2 x 1 - 47/40; + 3 x 1 - 57/40 H(tr)57/43

Naval service: No significant events.

Limpopo 1932

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