HMVS Gordon
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HMVS Gordon was a torpedo boat operated by the Victorian Naval Forces, the Commonwealth Naval Forces, and the Royal Australian Navy. She was launched in 1884 and lost in an accident in 1914.
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Name | HMVS Gordon |
Ordered | 5 February 1885[1] |
Builder | J. Samuel White, Cowes[1] |
Yard number | 606[1] |
Launched | 1884 |
History | |
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Name | HMAS Gordon |
Commissioned | 1911 |
Fate | Rammed and sunk 1914 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Torpedo boat |
Displacement | 12 tons |
Length | 56 ft (17 m) |
Beam | 9 ft 6 in (2.9 m) |
Draught | 4 ft 10 in (1.5 m)[1] |
Installed power | 150 ihp (110 kW) |
Propulsion | Compound surface-condensing steam engine |
Speed | 15 kn (28 km/h) |
Complement | 11[1] |
Armament |
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