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BRAMBLE composite gunboats (4, 1887)


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Bramble  

Ships


Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Rattler

  491

Armstrong Mitchell, Elswick

8.1885

4.8.1886

5.1887

harbour service 1910

Wasp   492 Armstrong Mitchell, Elswick 8/1885 13.9.1886 1887 foundered 10.9.1887
Lizard   190 Harland & Wolff, Belfast 1885 27.11.1886 10.1887 sold 1905
Bramble, 6.1896- Cockatrice   191 Harland & Wolff, Belfast 8/1885 11.12.1886 10.1887 sold 4.1906


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

715

Displacement full, t

810

Length, m

50.3 pp

Breadth, m

8.84

Draught, m

3.35

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

Rattler: 1200

Wasp, Lizard, Bramble: 1000

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

coal 105

Endurance, nm(kts)2500(10)
Armament

6 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk I, 4 x 1 - 11.4/94

Complement

76



Standard scale images


similar <i>Pigmy </i>1889
similar Pigmy 1889


Graphics


<i> Bramble</i>  
Bramble  


Project history

Built under 1885-86 Programme. By late 1887 Lizard, Rattler and Wasp (but not Bramble) were reclassed as gunvessels.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Wasp believed foundered with all hands after leaving Singapore for Shanghai 10.9.1887.

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