Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat

	HMS Spanker
Class overview
Name	Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat
Builders	Devonport Dockyard; Chatham Dockyard; Armstrong Mitchell, Elswick; Sheerness Dockyard;
Operators	Royal Navy
Preceded by	Grasshopper class
Succeeded by	Alarm class
Subclasses	Almirante Lynch class
Built	1888–1891
In commission	1889–1922
Completed	13
Lost	1
Scrapped	12
General characteristics
Type	Torpedo gunboat
Displacement	735 tons
Length	242 ft (74 m) oa, 230 ft (70 m) pp
Beam	27 ft (8.2 m)
Draught	8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Installed power	2,500 ihp (1,900 kW) (natural draught); 3,600 ihp (2,700 kW) (forced draught);
Propulsion	2 × Belliss and Morcom triple-expansion steam engines; Locomotive boilers; Twin screws; (later re-boilered with water-tube boilers);
Speed	19 kn (35 km/h)
Range	2,500 nmi (4,600 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)
Complement	91
Armament	5 × 14-inch (360 mm) torpedo tubes (3 reloads); 2 × QF 4.7-inch (12 cm) guns; 4 × 3-pounder guns; Except Plassey & Assaye:; 3 × 14-inch (360 mm) torpedo tubes (3 reloads); 2 × QF 4.7-inch (12 cm) guns; 4 × 3-pounder guns;

The Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat was a class of torpedo gunboat built for the Royal Navy in the late 19th century. One of the class was hulked in 1904, seven were scrapped before World War I and five were converted to minesweepers. Of these minesweepers, Seagull was lost to a collision in 1918 and the rest survived the war to be broken up in the early 1920s.

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