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Ships

Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
TB13		Maudslay, Sons & Field, Lambeth		1879	1879	sold 5.1897

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	28
Displacement full, t
Length, m	25.1 pp 26.5 oa
Breadth, m	3.28
Draught, m	1.22
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 2-cyl VC, 1 locomotive boiler
Power, h. p.	460
Max speed, kts	under 20
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 - 356 TC
Complement	15

Project history

Unusual in having brass hull. She proved a very bad seaboat and slow in the bargain, rolling excessively, though her engines were considered very good. By 1886 she colud make 11kts.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.