HMS Rattlesnake (1886)
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HMS Rattlesnake was a unique design of torpedo gunboat of the Royal Navy. A result of the Russian war scare of 1885, she was designed by Nathaniel Barnaby that year and built by Laird Brothers, of Birkenhead.[2][1] Quickly made obsolete by the new torpedo boat destroyers, she became an experimental submarine target ship in 1906, and was sold in 1910.
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Name | Rattlesnake |
Ordered | 1885 |
Builder | Laird Brothers, Birkenhead |
Yard number | 537 |
Laid down | 16 November 1885 |
Launched | 11 September 1886 |
Commissioned | May 1887 |
Fate | Sold in 1910 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Torpedo gunboat |
Displacement | 550 long tons (559 t) |
Length | 200 ft (61 m) pp |
Beam | 23 ft (7 m) |
Depth of hold | 10 ft 2 in (3.1 m) |
Propulsion | 2 screws; 2 triple-expansion steam engines |
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Range | 2,800 nmi (5,200 km; 3,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 66 |
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Armour | Deck (ship): 0.75 in (19 mm) |
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