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Nr.1 torpedo boats (1881)


Ships


Names Builders Commissioned Losses Transfers Discarding

Nr.1, 2

Thornycroft, Chiswick, UK: Nr.1, 2

1881: Nr.1, 2

None

None

1910: Nr.1, 2



Technical data


Displacement normal, t

10.9

Displacement full, t17
Length, m

18.4

Breadth, m

2.29

Draught, m

1.07

No of shafts

1

Machinery1 VC, 1 locomotive boiler
Power, h. p.230
Max speed, kts

16

Fuel, t

coal 1.5

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 spar torpedo

Complement10


Project history

These third class boats had a steel hull with a ram bow, one funnel and a conning tower abaft the funnel. The single McEvoy spar torpedo was carried in the bow.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.