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ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

BRAMBLE steel gunboats (1899-1901)

Thistle 1901

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Bramble     Potter, Liverpool 1897 26.11.1898 6/1900 sold 1.1920
Britomart     Potter, Liverpool 1897 28.3.1899 6/1900 sold 6.1920
Dwarf   294 London & Glasgow Co, Govan 1897 15.11.1898 8/1899 sold 7.1926
Thistle   295 London & Glasgow Co, Govan 1897 22.6.1899 1901 sold 7.1926

 

Displacement normal, t

710

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

57.2 oa 54.9 pp

Breadth, m

10.1

Draught, m

2.44

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 3-cyl VTE, Yarrow boilers

Power, h. p.

1300

Max speed, kts

13.5

Fuel, t

coal 145

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk I/II/III/IV, 4 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I, 10 x 1 - 11.4/94

Complement

85

Project history: First British gunboats with steel hull and last British classical gunboats.

Modernizations: None

Naval service: No significant events.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

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