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LIMPOPO gunboat

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Limpopo   Thames Iron Works, Blackwall, UK   1890 1890 discarded 1943
  

Displacement normal, t

288

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

37.8

Breadth, m

6.40

Draught, m

2.00

No of shafts

1

Machinery

VC, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

520

Max speed, kts

11.3

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 47/40 Hotchkiss

Complement

54

Ship project history: Colonial gunboat intended for service on Limpopo river in Africa. Iron hulled.

Modernizations: 1920s: - 2 x 1 - 47/40; + 3 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss

Naval service: No significant events.

Limpopo 1932

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