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Ships

Names	Builders	Completed	Losses	Transfers	Discarded
New South Wales, 1901- RAN: Acheron, later- Jenner Avernus	Atlas, Sydney, Australia: Acheron, Avernus	1879: Acheron, Avernus	none	none	1902: Jenner, Avernus

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	16
Displacement full, t
Length, m	23.8
Breadth, m	3.05
Draught, m	0.91
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VC, 1 locomotive boiler
Power, h. p.	200
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 spar torpedo
Complement	9

Project history

This pair was the only TBs built not in Europe or America.

Modernizations

1887, both: - spar torpedo; + 2 - 356 TC

Naval service

Acheron was subsequently transferred to New South Wales quarantine service and renamed Jenner.