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RIO LIMA gunboat (1875)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Rio Lima     Laird, Birkenhead, UK   1875 1875 discarded 1910
  

Displacement normal, t

628

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

43.3 pp 45.4 oa

Breadth, m

8.62

Draught, m

3.20

No of shafts

1

Machinery

 

Power, h. p.

500

Max speed, kts

11

Fuel, t

coal 90

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 178/16 Armstrong 6.5-ton MLR, 4 x 1 - 121/14 Armstrong 40pdr 1.32-ton MLR

Complement

109

Project history: Iron-hulled wooden-sheathed colonial gunboat.

Modernizations: 1880s: - 1 x 1 - 178/16, 4 x 1 - 121/14; + 1 x 1 - 152/26 A.15/28, 2 x 1 - 100/27 A10/28

Naval service: No significant events.

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