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Tuesday, 9 April 2013

British destroyer Sunfish performing well during trials according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1895-1896 no. 12

An item referred to the magazine Engineering reported that the British destroyer Sunfish performed well during her trial. She was built at the shipyard of Hawthorn, Leslie&Co. at Hebburn-on-Tyne. During the trial of 3 hours she achieved a medium speed of 27,581 miles and the medium speed during 6 runs was 28.082 miles. The boiler pressure was 188 lbs and medium rpm 351,2 and a medium horsepower of 4.174 hp. (1)

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1. Colledge. With a displacement of 315 tons were her main dimensions 200x 19. Launched on 23 may 1895 and sold on 7 June 1920 to J. Kelly.