Name: | TWEED |
Type: | Gunboat |
Keel: | |
Launched: | 23/08/1877 |
Completed: | 1877 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 346 |
Dimensions: | 363disp, 110.0 x 34.1 x 8.5(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x 2cyl, 60nhp, 310ihp |
Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 9.5knots |
Construction: | Iron |
Armament: | 3 x 1 x 64pdr guns; (1892: 2 or 3 x 1 x 4.7ins QF guns?) |
History: | |
1877 | British Royal Navy |
21/11/1905 | Sold |
Comments: | Member of the Medina class |
Fitted with 3 masts and barquentine rig of sails to extend their range | |
1892: May have been rearmed | |
21/11/1905: Sold at Hong Kong |
Above photo of sister MEDINA is copyright of Allan C Green
Above photo of sister MEDINA is copyright of the Imperial War Museum
Above photo of sister MEDINA is copyright of the Imperial War Museum
Jarrow Express, Saturday, 25/08/1877