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Rattlesnake

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Rattlesnake		537	Laird, Birkenhead	16.11.1885	11.9.1886	5.1887	hulk 1905

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	550
Displacement full, t
Length, m	61.0 pp
Breadth, m	7.01
Draught, m	3.15
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 3-cyl VTE, locomotive boilers
Power, h. p.	natural draught: 1600, forced draught: 2700
Max speed, kts	natural draught: 16.7, forced draught: 19.2
Fuel, t	coal 100
Endurance, nm(kts)	2800(10)
Armour, mm	steel; deck: 19
Armament	1 x 1 - 102/27 BL Mk II/III/IV/V/VI, 6 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 - 356 TT (1 bow, 1 stern, aw), 2 x 1 - 356 TT (8 at all)
Complement	66

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Project history

Unlike later TGBs Rattlesnake had a protective deck of 19mm steel. She had two fixed tubes and one training tube on either beam. The 102mm gun was mounted forward, and she was the same length as contemporary small cruisers but much narrower and shallower, the latter feature being intended to make torpedoes pass harmlessly under her. Ordered as a result of the Russian war scare, she proved a successful vessel, being kept in service, and still able to make her original speed, when her near-sisters of the Grasshopper class had all been removed from the effective list.

Ship protection

Ship was protected by curved steel 19mm deck.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Rattlesnake became virtually hulk in 1905, she was removed from Effective List in 1906.