Name: | GAMMA |
Type: | Gunboat |
Keel: | 27/12/1875 |
Launched: | 14/06/1876 |
Completed: | 10/02/1877 |
Builder: | C Mitchell & Co |
Yard: | Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 334 |
Dimensions: | 420disp, 231grt, 103nrt, 120.0 x 30.2 x 10.0ft |
Engines: | 2 x 1cyl (16 x 18ins), 65nhp, 270ihp |
Engines by: | Thompson & Co, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 9.6knots |
Construction: | Iron |
Armament: | 1 x 12.5ins, 2 x 1 x 9pdr guns |
Reg Number: | 76200 |
History: | |
27/01/1877 | James Duncan Campbell, London; registered at Newcastle |
29/01/1877 | Robert Hart & William Cartwright, Pekin |
25/06/1877 | Imperial Chinese Government renamed FEI-TING |
1905 | Sank |
Comments: | This was an Armstrong contract built using the facilities of the Mitchell yard |
Armament was supplied by the Armstrong company at Elswick | |
The gun could only elevate, so direction was provided by aligning the hull | |
The purchase was financed by the Chinese Customs Service | |
Robert Hart was the Inspector General of the Chinese Customs Service | |
William Cartwright was Commissioner of Chinese Maritime Customs | |
James Campbell was the London Agent of Robert Hart | |
1905: Lost by fire |
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