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INFANTE D. MANUEL river gunboat (1904)

Names

Infante D. Manuel, 1910- Rio Minho

Builders

ER de Lisboa: Infante D. Manuel

Completed

1904: Rio Minho

Losses

None

Transfers

None

Discarding

late 1940s: Rio Minho

  

Displacement normal, t

38

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

24.6

Breadth, m

4.00

Draught, m

0.60

No of shafts

side wheels

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

64

Max speed, kts

7.5

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 37/20 H(tr)37/23

Complement

8

Project history: Wheeled gunboat, formally built for frontier service on river Minho, but actually used for fisheries protection and for other needs of local authorities. Nominal complement of this ship was 68(!) persons, but majority of them served ashore.

Modernizations: 1920s: - 1 x 1 - 37/20; + 1 x 1 - 7.7/87.

Naval service: No significant events.

Rio Minho 1933

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