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Name: ASSAYE
Type: Torpedo Gunboat
Keel: 19/11/1888
Launched: 11/02/1890
Completed: 02/1892
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd
Yard: Elswick
Yard Number: 548
Dimensions: 739disp, 230.0 x 27.0 x 8.3(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x VT3cyl (22, 33 & 49 x 21ins), 2500ihp to 4500ihp
Engines by: Maudslay, Sons & Field, Lambeth
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 21.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 2 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 4 x 1 x 3pdr guns; 5 x 1 x 14.0ins torpedoes
History:
02/1892 Royal Indian Marine
05/1904 Broken up
Comments: Member of the Gossamer Class


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