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Ships

Names	Builders	Commissioned	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
Alpha Beta Gamma	Thornycroft, Woolston, UK: Alpha, Beta, Gamma	1885: Alpha 1885-86: Beta, Gamma	None	None	1905: Alpha, Beta, Gamma

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3.5
Displacement full, t
Length, m	13.7 pp
Breadth, m	1.83
Draught, m	0.36
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VSE, 1 locomotive boiler
Power, h. p.
Max speed, kts	12.3
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 MG, 1 spar torpedo
Complement

Project history

Steel-hulled third class TBs for river patrols. They had a ram bow, one funnel and a single high-pressure cyl engine. The McEvoy spar torpedo was worked from the starboard side.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.