Her hull was build of steel and sheathed with wood and copper, further more a flushed deck and a low freeboard. With a displacement of 1,450 tons (normal) were her dimensions 213’3” (between perpendiculars( x 32’9”x 12’10” (mean) or 64,92 x 9,98 x 3,91 metres. The two shaft steam engine supplied 2,730 ihp allowing a speed of 14 knots while she had a coal bunker capacity of 260-350 tons. In 1919 was the engine replaced by a 500 ihp oil-fired engine which allowed a maximum speed of 10 knots and the oil bunker capacity was now 263 tons. The armour consisted of a 1½+ thick deck over the whole ships’ length while the conning tower was protected with 1½” thick armour and the guns by 4”shields. The original armament consisted of a bow ram,1-10”Armstrong breech loading gun forward, 2x1-6” breech loading guns mounted in sponsons amidships and a third 6” breech loading gun aft and finally 4-9pdr guns. In 1909 the armament consisted after the rebuilding of 1-6” gun, 1-4.7” gun and 8x1-3” guns. The crew numbered 210 men. Launched in 1885 at Trieste was the building finished in February 1887, rebuild in 1909 as a surveying ship, in 1919 as a transport and finally around 1930 stricken.
