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OTTER gunboat (1878)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Otter   110 Schichau, Elbing 1877 7.6.1877 4.1878 TS, hulk 5.1907


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

130

Displacement full, t

164

Length, m

31.0 oa 29.1 wl

Breadth, m

6.15

Draught, m

1.63

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VSE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

140

Max speed, kts

8

Fuel, t

coal 15

Endurance, nm(kts)

1181(7)

Armament

planned: 1 x 1 - 120/21 RK L/23 C/69

really: unarmed

Complement

43



Standard scale images


<i>Otter </i>1888
Otter 1888


Project history

This curious little schooner-rigged, iron-hulled gunboat was intended to be an anti-pirate vessel for China, but, perhaps because she was a bad seaboat, never left German waters.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

She was used as a mining instruction ship. She was sold as a coal barge in 1913, and broken up in 1926.