Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat
HMS Spanker | |
| Class overview | |
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| Name | Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat |
| Builders |
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| Operators | Royal Navy |
| Preceded by | Grasshopper class |
| Succeeded by | Alarm class |
| Subclasses | Almirante Lynch class |
| Built | 1888–1891 |
| In commission | 1889–1922 |
| Completed | 13 |
| Lost | 1 |
| Scrapped | 12 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Torpedo gunboat |
| Displacement | 735 tons |
| Length | 242 ft (74 m) oa, 230 ft (70 m) pp |
| Beam | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Draught | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 19 kn (35 km/h) |
| Range | 2,500 nmi (4,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h) |
| Complement | 91 |
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The Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat was a class of torpedo gunboat built for the Royal Navy in the late 19th century. One of the class was hulked in 1904, seven were scrapped before World War I and five were converted to minesweepers. Of these minesweepers, Seagull was lost to a collision in 1918 and the rest survived the war to be broken up in the early 1920s.