An item referred to the magazine Engineering reporting that the British gunboat Torch with a displacement of 960 tons and a horsepower of 1.400 ihp executed her trials achieving a speed with natural draft of 13 and with forced draft 13,4 miles.(1)
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1. Of the Alert-class sloop consisting of the Alert and Torch. Laid down at the Sheerness Dockyard, England on 18 December 1893, launched on 28 December 1894, commissioned in October 1895, handed over to the New Zealand government on 16 August 1917 and renamed as training ship Firebrand, sold in July 1920 and wrecked as the fish reefer ship Rama off the Chatham Islands on 17 November 1924.
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