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ALBACORE composite gunboats (3, 1884)
Photo
Watchful
Ships
Name |
No | Yard No |
Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Albacore |
506 | Laird, Birkenhead |
1881 |
13.1.1883 |
2.1884 |
sold 5.1906 |
|
| Mistletoe | 507 | Laird, Birkenhead | 1881 | 7.2.1883 | 8.1884 | boom defence vessel 1903 | |
| Watchful | 508 | Laird, Birkenhead | 1881 | 13.2.1883 | 8.1884 | boom defence vessel 1903 |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 560 |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | |
| Length, m | 41.2 pp |
| Breadth, m | 7.92 |
| Draught, m | 2.13 - 3.12 |
| No of shafts | 1 |
| Machinery | sails + 1 2-cyl VC, cylindrical boilers |
| Power, h. p. | 650 |
| Max speed, kts | 10.7 |
| Fuel, t | coal 85 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament | 2 x 1 - 127/25 BL Mk I/II, 2 x 1 - 102/27 BL Mk I/II, 2 x 1 - 25/40 Nordenfelt Mk I |
| Complement | 60 |
Graphics
Watchful
Project history
Three-masted barquentine rig. Reintroduced BL guns as main weapons on gunboats, but were the last to use traversing mountings.
Modernizations
None.
Naval service
No significant events.
Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.
