NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Handy, 5.1891- Excellent, 11.1916- Calcutta, 8.1917- Snapper		451	Mitchell, Low Walker	8.1882	30.12.1882	7.1883	TS 5.1891, sold 4.1924

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	508
Displacement full, t
Length, m	35.1
Breadth, m	11.3
Draught, m	2.75
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 2-cyl HSE, 2 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	310
Max speed, kts	8.5
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 343/30 BL Mk I
Complement

Project history Trials gunboat. Experimentally fitted initially with the 343mm gun intended for new battleships. Modernizations

Trials gunboat. Experimentally fitted initially with the 343mm gun intended for new battleships. Modernizations: 1900s: - 1 x 1 - 343/30; + 1 x 1 - 190/45 BL Mk I, 1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk I

Naval service

Snapper was sold 27.4.1924, sold again to shipbreakers in the 1970s but not BU and was afloat in 2002 at Portsmouth.

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