HMS Wasp (1880)

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HMS Wasp
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Wasp
BuilderBarrow Iron Shipbuilding
Yard number71
Launched5 October 1880
Commissioned1 December 1881
Fate
  • Wrecked on 22 September 1884
  • Wreck sold in November 1910
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeBanterer-class gunboat
Displacement465 tons
Length125 ft (38.1 m) pp
Beam23 ft 6 in (7.2 m)
Draught10 ft (3.0 m)
Installed power360 ihp (270 kW)[2]
Propulsion
  • 2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine
  • Single screw
Sail planBarquentine
Speed9+1⁄2 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph)
Range40 tons coal
Complement60
Armament

HMS Wasp was a Banterer-class composite screw gunboat of the Royal Navy, built in 1880 by Barrow Iron Shipbuilding and wrecked off Tory Island in 1884.

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