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LINNET composite gun vessels (2, 1880)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Swift     Thames Iron Wks, Blackwall 1878 29.11.1879 1880 sold 2.1902
Linnet     Thames Iron Wks, Blackwall 1878 30.1.1880 1880 sold 4.1904


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

788

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

50.3 pp

Breadth, m

8.84

Draught, m

3.12 - 3.30

No of shafts

1

Machinerysails + 1 2-cyl HC, cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.

Swift: 1010

Linnet: 1050

Max speed, kts

11.8

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 178/14 41/2-ton MLR, 3 x 1 - 100/21 20pdr 16cwt BL

Complement92


Standard scale images


<i>Linnet </i>1880
Linnet 1880


Project history

Composite gunvessels, Barnaby design. Barque-rigged.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.