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ALBACORE composite gunboats (3, 1884)


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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


<i> Watchful</i>  
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.