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Defender-class torpedo boat
A Defender-class torpedo boat, clearly showing the spar torpedo
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History
United Kingdom
Name HMS Poneke
Ordered 26 August 1882
Builder John I. Thornycroft & Company
Cost £12,600 for four boats
Yard number 171
Launched 31 August 1883
Commissioned 18 September 1883
General characteristics
Class and type Defender-class torpedo boat
Displacement 12 tons
Length 62 ft 10 in (19.15 m)
Beam 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m)
Installed power 173 hp (129 kW)
Propulsion
  • Two-cylinder compound-expansion steam reciprocating engine
  • 130lb/sq in Locomotive boiler,
Speed 17.3 kn (32.0 km/h)
Complement 7
Armament
  • One McEvoy Spar torpedo
  • Two 18" Whitehead torpedoes
  • One 2-barrelled Nordenfelt gun

HMS Poneke was a colonial service Defender-class torpedo boat designed by Thornycroft & Company for the defence of New Zealand, built at Chiswick in 1883 and shipped to New Zealand.

Sources

  • The New Zealand Maritime Index
  • Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6.
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