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OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

RIO TÂMEGA gunboats (1875)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Rio Tâmega     Laird, Birkenhead, UK   1875 1875 discarded 1909
Rio Sado     Laird, Birkenhead, UK   1875 1875 discarded 1921
  

Displacement normal, t

635

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

45.4 pp

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: Composite hull colonial gunboats.

Modernizations: 1890s, both: - 1 x 1 - 178/16, 4 x 1 - 121/14; + 2 x 1 - 105/32 K.10.5/35, 2 x 1 - 65/40 H(tr)65/40, 1 x 1 - 37/20 H(tr)37/23

Naval service: No significant events.

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