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FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
UNITED KINGDOM
OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS
PLUCKY flatiron gunboat (1, 1870)
Ships
Name |
No |
Yard No | Builder |
Laid down |
Launched |
Comp |
Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plucky | Portsmouth DYd | 1869 | 13.7.1870 | 1870 | miscellaneous duties 1906 |
Technical data
| Displacement normal, t | 193 |
|---|---|
| Displacement full, t | 212 |
| Length, m | 24.4 |
| Breadth, m | 7.66 |
| Draught, m | 1.87 |
| No of shafts | 2 |
| Machinery | 2 2-cyl HSE, 1 cylindrical boiler |
| Power, h. p. | 234 |
| Max speed, kts | 7.7 |
| Fuel, t | coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
| Armament | 1 x 1 - 229/14 MLR Mk IV |
| Complement | 31 |
Project history Plucky was a second prototype of Rendel 'flatiron' gunboats. Modernizations
Plucky was a second prototype of Rendel 'flatiron' gunboats. Modernizations: None.
Naval service
Plucky was serving on miscellaneous duties by 1906, reduced to harbour service in June, 1915 and renamed Banterer and sold for BU in 1928.
