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Names |
Rio Minho (ex-Infante Dom Manuel) |
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Builders |
ER de Lisboa |
|
Completed |
1904: Rio Minho |
|
Losses |
None |
|
Transfers |
None |
|
Discarding |
late 1940s: Rio Minho |
|
Displacement normal, t |
38 |
|
Displacement full, t |
|
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Length, m |
24.6 |
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Breadth, m |
4.00 |
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Draught, m |
0.60 |
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No of shafts |
side wheels |
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Machinery |
VTE, 1 boiler |
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Power, h. p. |
64 |
|
Max speed, kts |
7.5 |
|
Fuel, t |
coal |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
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Armament |
2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss |
|
Complement |
8 |
Ship project history: Wheeled gunboat, formally built for frontier service on river Minho, but actually used for fisheries protection and for other needs of local authorities. Nominal complement of this ship was 68(!) persons, but majority of them served ashore.
Modernizations: 1920s: - 1 x 1 - 37/20; + 1 x 1 - 7.7/87.
Naval service: No significant events.
Rio Minho 1933
© Ivan Gogin, 2011