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TORPEDO SHIPS

BATUM torpedo boat (1880)

Batum 1880

Names

Áàòóì [Batum], 4.1895- ¹251

Builders

Yarrow, Poplar, UK: Batum

Completed

1880: Batum

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1908: ¹251

 

Displacement normal, t

43

Displacement full, t

48

Length, m

29.4 pp 30.6 oa

Breadth, m

3.66

Draught, m

1.91 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VC, 1 locomotive boiler

Power, h. p.

500

Max speed, kts

15.2

Fuel, t

coal 10

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 2 - 381 TT (bow)

Complement

21

Project history: Ram-bowed with turtle deck forward, two funnels abreast, an after rudder showing above water and a drop rudder in the bow. The two bow TT were fixed under the turtle deck and two spare torpedoes were carried on deck. The first torpedo boat to steam from London to the Mediterranean.

Modernizations: 1880s: + 1 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss

Naval service: No significant events.

Batum

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