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

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Ever   270 Mitchell, Low Walker, UK 11.1871 15.10.1872 9.1873 TS 1884, accommodation ship 8.1914
Hydra   271 Mitchell, Low Walker, UK 11.1871 17.10.1872 9.1873 stricken 1906
Das     Rijkswerf, Amsterdam   1876 1876 minelayer 1914, sold 1925
Daak     Rijkswerf, Amsterdam   1874 1874 subsidiary service 1894
Fret     Rijkswerf, Amsterdam   1876 1876 accommodation ship 1898
Geep     Rijkswerf, Amsterdam   1875 1875 auxiliary 1908
Gier     Rijkswerf, Amsterdam   1875 1875 TS 1894, sold 1913
Havik     Rijkswerf, Amsterdam   1874 1874 minelayer 1914, BU 1936
Raaf     Rijkswerf, Amsterdam   1875 1875 subsidiary service 1894
Brak   92 Nederlandsche, Rotterdam   1875 1875 hulk 1902
Lynx, 1912- Los     Nederlandsche, Rotterdam 7.1874 20.5.1875 1875 sold 1925
Vos     Nederlandsche, Rotterdam   1875 1875 stricken 1893
Bever     Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven   1876 1876 accommodation ship 1896
Sperwer     Christie, Nolet & De Kuyper, Delfshaven   1875 1875 TS 1896, auxiliary 1927


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

218

Displacement full, t221
Length, m

25.9

Breadth, m8.00
Draught, m2.20
No of shafts1
Machinery1 VC, 2 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.

124 - 146

Max speed, kts

7.5 - 8

Fuel, t

coal 20

Endurance, nm(kts)

800(6)

Armament

1 x 1 - 229/14 Armstrong 12.5-ton MLR

Complement34


Standard scale images


nearly sister-ship<i> Hefring</i> 1940
nearly sister-ship Hefring 1940


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<i>Ever</i> <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
Ever Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


Project history

Iron-hulled Rendell type gunboats.

Modernizations

1890s, all survived: - 1 x 1 - 229/14; + 1 x 1 - 209/32 Krupp No.1, 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 1 x 5 - 37/17 Hothckiss

1914, Das, Havik: as minelayers were armed with 2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 1 x 1 - 7.9/80, mines

Naval service

No significant events.

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