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PIGMY composite gunboats (6, 1888-1889)


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Plover  

Ships


Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Pheasant

   

Devonport DYd

6.6.1887

10.4.1888

10.1888

sold 5.1906

Partridge     Devonport DYd 6.6.1887 10.5.1888 12.1888 sold 1909
Peacock   214 Pembroke DYd 1887 22.6.1888 11.1888 sold 5.1906
Pigmy     Sheerness DYd 1887 27.7.1888 7.1889 sold 4.1905
Pigeon   215 Pembroke DYd 1887 5.9.1888 3.1889 sold 5.1906
Plover   216 Pembroke DYd 1887 18.10.1888 7.1889 boom defence vessel 1904


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

755

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

50.3 pp

Breadth, m

9.14

Draught, m

3.43

No of shafts

1

Machinery

sails + 1 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

13.2

Fuel, t

coal 105

Endurance, nm(kts)2500(10)
Armament

6 x 1 - 102/27 BL Mk II/III/IV/V/VI, 4 x 1 - 11.4/94

Complement

76



Standard scale images


<i>Pigmy </i>1889
Pigmy 1889


Graphics


<i> Plover</i>  
Plover  


Project history

Built under 1886-87 Programme.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.

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