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ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

"HERON" river gunboats (1898)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Nightingale NN8 1047 Yarrow, Scotstoun   27.10.1897 1898 sold 11.1919
Robin   1048 Yarrow, Scotstoun   1897 1898 sold 9.1928
Sandpiper   1046 Yarrow, Scotstoun   2.7.1897 1898 sold 10.1920
Snipe NN5 1049 Yarrow, Scotstoun   1897 1898 sold 11.1919

 

Displacement normal, t

85

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

32.8

Breadth, m

6.10

Draught, m

0.61

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 steam engine

Power, h. p.

240

Max speed, kts

9

Fuel, t

coal 11

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I

Complement

25

Project history: Tunnel-screw type for service on shallow waters.

Modernizations: None

Naval service: All served at Yangtze. Paid off in December 1914. Only Robin was re-commissioned post-war.

Robin

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

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