BRAMBLE composite gunboats (1887)
similar Pigmy 1889
|
Name |
No |
Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|
Rattler |
491 |
Armstrong Mitchell, Elswick |
8.1885 |
4.8.1886 |
5.1887 |
harbour service 1910 |
|
| Wasp | 492 | Armstrong Mitchell, Elswick | 8/1885 | 13.9.1886 | 1887 | foundered 10.9.1887 | |
| Lizard | 190 | Harland & Wolff, Belfast | 1885 | 27.11.1886 | 10.1887 | sold 1905 | |
| Bramble, 6.1896- Cockatrice | 191 | Harland & Wolff, Belfast | 8/1885 | 11.12.1886 | 10.1887 | sold 4.1906 |
|
Displacement normal, t |
715 |
|
Displacement full, t |
810 |
|
Length, m |
50.3 pp |
|
Breadth, m |
8.84 |
|
Draught, m |
3.35 |
|
No of shafts |
1 |
|
Machinery |
sails + 1 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
Rattler: 1200 Wasp, Lizard, Bramble: 1000 |
|
Max speed, kts |
13 |
|
Fuel, t |
coal 105 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 2500(10) |
|
Armament |
6 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk I, 4 x 1 - 11.4/94 |
|
Complement |
76 |
Project history: Built under 1885-86 Programme. By late 1887 Lizard, Rattler and Wasp (but not Bramble) were reclassed as gunvessels.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: Wasp believed foundered with all hands after leaving Singapore for Shanghai 10.9.1887.
Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
Bramble
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