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ALGERINE composite gun vessels (3, 1880-1881)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Rambler   127 Elder, Fairfield 1879 26.1.1880 1884 // --- completed 1884 as survey vessel
Ranger   128 Elder, Fairfield 1879 12.2.1880 1880 sold 9.1892
Algerine   131 Harland & Wolff, Belfast 1879 6.11.1880 1881 sold 5.1892


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

835

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

47.9 pp

Breadth, m

8.99

Draught, m

4.11

No of shafts

1

Machinerysails + 1 2-cyl HC, cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.

810

Max speed, kts

10.5

Fuel, t

coal 110

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 178/14 41/2-ton MLR, 2 x 1 - 160/16 64pdr 71cwt MLR, 2 x 1 - 25/60

Complement100


Standard scale images


<i>Algerine </i>1881
Algerine 1881


Project history

Composite gunvessels, Barnaby design.

Modernizations

1890s, both: - 1 x 1 - 178/14; + 2 x 1 - 127/25 BL Mk I/II/III/IV/V

Naval service

No significant events.

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