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Name: CASTORE
Type: Gunboat
Keel: 22/02/1887
Launched: 09/1888
Completed: 1889
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Elswick
Yard Number: 512
Dimensions: 667disp, 115.0 x 37.0 x 9.2(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x VT3cyl (9.5, 15 & 25 x 18ins), 364ihp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 8.5knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 1 x 16.0ins gun
History:
1889 Italian Ministry of War
08/10/1925 Stricken
Comments: Shipped to Italy in parts and re-assembled at Pozzuoli nera Naples
May have been a test bed for the 16.0ins gun
1889: Re-armed with a 4.7ins gun
1899: Disarmed and reclassified as a barge
1904: Reclassified as a minelayer
1915: Reclassified as a torpedo testing craft
08/10/1925: Stricken and discarded


Photo is of her sister POLLUCE