|
Name |
No |
Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
| Handy, 5.1891- Excellent, 11.1916- Calcutta, 8.1917- Snapper | 451 | Mitchell, Low Walker | 8.1882 | 30.12.1882 | 7.1883 | TS 5.1891, sold 4.1924 |
|
Displacement normal, t |
508 |
|
Displacement full, t |
|
|
Length, m |
35.1 |
|
Breadth, m |
11.3 |
|
Draught, m |
2.75 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
2 2-cyl HSE, 2 cylindrical boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
310 |
|
Max speed, kts |
8.5 |
|
Fuel, t |
coal |
|
Endurance, nm(kts) |
|
|
Armament |
1 x 1 - 343/30 BL Mk I |
|
Complement |
Project history:
Trials gunboat. Experimentally fitted initially with the 343mm gun intended for
new battleships.
Modernizations: 1900s: - 1 x 1 - 343/30; + 1 x 1 - 190/45 BL Mk I, 1 x 1
- 102/40 QF Mk I
Naval service: Snapper was sold 27.4.1924, sold again to shipbreakers in the 1970s but not BU and was afloat in 2002 at Portsmouth.
Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
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