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MEDINA flatiron gunboats (1876-1877)

Medina 1877

Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Medina   332 Palmers, Jarrow 1875 3.8.1876 1876 sold 1904
Medway   333 Palmers, Jarrow 1875 3.10.1876 1876 sold 1904
Sabrina   334 Palmers, Jarrow 1875 3.10.1876 1876 diving tender Sabine 1916
Spey   335 Palmers, Jarrow 1875 5.10.1876 1876 deleted 1915
Tay   336 Palmers, Jarrow 1875 19.10.1876 1876 sold 10.1920
Tees   337 Palmers, Jarrow 1875 19.10.1876 1876 sold 7.1907
Dee   341 Palmers, Jarrow 1876 4.4.1877 1877 torpedo instruction vessel 1892, sold 7.1902
Don   342 Palmers, Jarrow 1876 14.4.1877 1877 concrete barge 1906, gunboat 1908, lighter 1911
Esk   343 Palmers, Jarrow 1876 28.4.1877 1877 sold 4.1903
Slaney   344 Palmers, Jarrow 1876 28.4.1877 1877 diving tender 1906
Trent   345 Palmers, Jarrow 1876 23.8.1877 1877 diving tender Pembroke 9.1905
Tweed   346 Palmers, Jarrow 1876 23.8.1877 1877 sold 11.1905

 

Displacement normal, t

363

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

33.5

Breadth, m

10.4

Draught, m

1.70 - 1.75

No of shafts

2

Machinery

sails + 2 2-cyl HSE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

310

Max speed, kts

9.5

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

3 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 64cwt MLR

Complement

51

Project history: Rendel 'flatiron' gunboats with medium-calibre guns.
Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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

 

Medina 1882

 

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