&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Viper_(1865)_cut_away.jpg) A contemporary cut away diagram of Viper
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| History | |
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| Name | HMS Viper |
| Ordered | 22 March 1864[1] |
| Builder | J & W Dudgeon, Cubitt Town, London[1] |
| Cost | £51,127[1] |
| Laid down | 1864 |
| Launched | 21 December 1865[2] |
| Commissioned | 1866 |
| Fate | |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 1,228 tons[2] |
| Tons burthen | 737 bm |
| Length | 160 ft (49 m) pp |
| Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m)[1] |
| Draught | 11 ft (3.4 m)[1] |
| Installed power | 696 ihp (519 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Sail plan | Barquentine rig (removed 1873) |
| Speed | 9.5 kn (17.6 km/h)[3] |
| Complement | 80 |
| Armament | |
| Armour | 4.5 in (11 cm) iron belt and bulkheads with 10 in (25 cm) of teak backing |
HMS Viper was an armoured iron gunboat, the only ship of her class, and the fourteenth ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name.
- ^ a b c d e f g Winfield (2004) p.264
- ^ a b "HMS Viper at Naval Database website". Retrieved 23 September 2008.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b Richard A Gould, The archaeology of HMS Vixen, an early ironclad ram in Bermuda, The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (1991) 20.2: 141-153[dead link]