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PLUCKY flatiron gunboat (1870)

Plucky 1870

Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Plucky     Portsmouth DYd 1869 13.7.1870 1870 miscellaneous duties 1906

 

Displacement normal, t

193

Displacement full, t

212

Length, m

24.4

Breadth, m

7.66

Draught, m

1.87

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 2-cyl HSE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

234

Max speed, kts

7.7

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

1 x 1 - 229/14 MLR Mk IV

Complement

31

Project history: Plucky was a second prototype of Rendel 'flatiron' gunboats.
Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Plucky was serving on miscellaneous duties by 1906, reduced to harbour service in June, 1915 and renamed Banterer and sold for BU in 1928.

 

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