Published Resources Details Journal Article

Title
Seagoing torpedo boat for the Brazilian Navy
In
Engineering
Imprint
vol. 52, 18 September 1891, p. 333 and 337
Description

Accession No.921

Abstract

The second of two twin screw seagoing torpedo boats (length 150 feet, beam 14 feet, draught 5 feet three and a half inches; trial speed 20.086 knots) fitted with two inverted-vertical triple-expansion marine engines operating on steam supplied at 210 pounds per square inch by two Thornycroft water-tube boilers; armament, four 14-inch gunpowder impulse torpedo tubes, and two 3-pounder Nordenfelt guns mounted on recoil carriages.