Bramble-class gunboat (1898)

HMS Thistle, c. 1910.
Class overview
Name	Bramble class
Builders	W.H. Potter & Sons London & Glasgow
Operators	Royal Navy
Preceded by	Redbreast class (1889)
Succeeded by	n/a – designation abolished
Built	1898–1899
In commission	1900–1925
Completed	4
General characteristics
Type	First class gunboat
Displacement	710 tons standard
Length	180 ft (55 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draught	8 ft (2.4 m)
Installed power	1,300 ihp (970 kW)
Propulsion	Triple-expansion steam engine Twin screw
Speed	13.5 kn (25.0 km/h)
Range	2050 nm at 10.85 kn (HMS Bramble) 2000 nm at 11.5 kn (HMS Thistle)
Boats & landing craft carried	1 × 27' whaler 1 × 25' cutter 1 × 16' skiff or dinghy 1 × 23' steam cutter
Crew	85
Armament	2 × 4-inch QF 4 × 12-pdr QF 4 × 0.45-inch Maxim gun

The Bramble-class gunboat was a type of warship used by the Royal Navy between the 1890s and the 1920s. The four ships of this class were notable as the final development of the Victorian gunboat tradition, and for being one of the last classes of warship designed to travel under sail. One of them, HMS Thistle, retained a functional sailing rig into the mid-1920s.