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SARPEN gunboat (1861)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Sarpen     MV Horten   8.12.1860 1861 stricken 1918


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

220

Displacement full, t 
Length, m 
Breadth, m 
Draught, m 
No of shafts1
Machinery 
Power, h. p. 
Max speed, kts 
Fuel, tcoal
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 150/18 5.75tomme 87crt Finspång banded MLR

Complement 


Project history

Small coastal gunboat.

Modernizations

1893, converted to command vessel armed with 2 x 1 - 65/50 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 37/45 Hotchkiss

Naval service

From 1918 Sarpen was used as submarine salvage vessel till 1940.

Many thanks to Kent Crawford for correction of information.