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Class overview | |
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Name | Alert-class sloops |
Builders | Sheerness Royal Dockyard |
Operators | Royal Navy |
Built | 1894 |
In commission | 1894–1926 |
Completed | 2 |
Lost | 0 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Screw steel sloop |
Displacement | 960 tons |
Length | 180 ft (55 m) |
Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
Draught | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
Installed power | 1,400 hp (1,044 kW)[2] |
Propulsion |
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Sail plan |
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Complement | 107[2] |
Armament | |
Armour | Protective deck of 1 in (2.5 cm) to 1.5 in (3.8 cm) steel over machinery and boilers.[1] |
The Alert class was a two-ship class of 6-gun[3] screw steel sloops[3] built for the Royal Navy in 1894.