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ROYAL NAVY (UNITED KINGDOM)

OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

WOODCOCK river gunboats (1898)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Woodcock   326 Thornycroft, Chiswick / Shanghai, China   1897 // 8.4.1898 1898 sold 3.1923
Woodlark N0C 327 Thornycroft, Chiswick / Shanghai, China   1897 // 8.4.1898 1898 sold 7.1923

 

Displacement normal, t

150

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

44.2

Breadth, m

7.30

Draught, m

0.60

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 steam engine

Power, h. p.

550

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

coal 28

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 4 x 1 - 7.7/94

Complement

25

Project history: Tunnel-screw type, hull had bullet-proof protection.

Modernizations: None

Naval service: Paid off in December 1914 but were re-commissioned post-war.

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

Woodcock

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