Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat

HMS Spanker
Class overview
Name	Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat
Builders	Devonport Dockyard Chatham Dockyard Armstrong Mitchell, Elswick Sheerness Dockyard
Operators	Royal Navy
Preceded by	Grasshopper class
Succeeded by	Alarm class
Subclasses	Almirante Lynch class
Built	1888–1891
In commission	1889–1922[1]
Completed	13
Lost	1
Scrapped	12
General characteristics [1]
Type	Torpedo gunboat
Displacement	735 tons
Length	242 ft (74 m) oa, 230 ft (70 m) pp
Beam	27 ft (8.2 m)
Draught	8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Installed power	2,500 ihp (1,900 kW) (natural draught) 3,600 ihp (2,700 kW) (forced draught)
Propulsion	2 × Belliss and Morcom triple-expansion steam engines Locomotive boilers Twin screws (later re-boilered with water-tube boilers)
Speed	19 kn (35 km/h)
Range	2,500 nmi (4,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Complement	91
Armament	5 × 14-inch (360 mm) torpedo tubes (3 reloads) 2 × QF 4.7-inch (12 cm) guns 4 × 3-pounder guns Except Plassey & Assaye: 3 × 14-inch (360 mm) torpedo tubes (3 reloads) 2 × QF 4.7-inch (12 cm) guns 4 × 3-pounder guns

The Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat was a class of torpedo gunboat built for the Royal Navy in the late 19th century. One of the class was hulked in 1904, seven were scrapped before World War I and five were converted to minesweepers. Of these minesweepers, Seagull was lost to a collision in 1918 and the rest survived the war to be broken up in the early 1920s.