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Class overview | |
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Name | Fly class |
Builders | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
Operators |
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In service | 1915–1924 |
Completed | 16 |
Lost | 3 |
Retired | 13 |
General characteristics | |
Type | River gunboat[1] |
Displacement | 98 long tons (100 t) |
Length | 126 ft (38 m) |
Beam | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
Draught | 2 ft (0.61 m) |
Propulsion | 1 shaft VTE, single yarrow type mixed firing boiler, 175 ihp (130 kW) |
Speed | 9.5 kn (10.9 mph; 17.6 km/h) |
Complement | 22 |
Armament |
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The Fly-class river gunboats (or small China gunboats), collectively often referred to as the "Tigris gunboat flotilla", were a class of small well-armed Royal Navy vessels designed to patrol the Tigris river during the Mesopotamian Campaign during the First World War (the China name was to disguise their function).[a]
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