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AFROESSA gunboats (1856-1858)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Αφροεσσα [Afroessa]     UK     1857 hulk 1904
Πανοπη [Panopi]     UK     1856 lost 1856
Πληξαυρα [Plixavra]     UK     1857 sold 1926
Σφενδονη [Sfendoni], 1862- Ναύπλιον [Nafplion]     UK     1858 discarded 1896


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

380

Displacement full, t 
Length, m38.0
Breadth, m6.99
Draught, m2.69
No of shafts1
Machinery 
Power, h. p.160
Max speed, kts9
Fuel, tcoal 55
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

4 - 6 guns

Complement 


Project history

Iron-hulled screw gunboats.

Modernizations

1880s, all were armed with 1 x 1 - 87/22 RK L/24 C/75

Naval service

No significant events.