there is not much history available about this ship but as far as I am aware,this is how she was originally completed and how she stayed for thirty years or more. I have no idea what she looked like for the next fifty years.
yes,she is H.M.S. Drudge,a very imposing looking vessel. Started life testing guns,taken over by the navy spending years as a gunnery school then retired from naval service in her thirties to serve another 50 years in civilian life.
She probably out lived most of her crew.
It would be interesting to know if she ever saw combat.
"Displacement of freak was 890 tonnes,with a length of 39.7 meters, 19.8 width of 1.83 m.I submerged steam engine with a capacity of 336 hp and fueled one of the screw allowed reaching speeds of 8 knots."
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An M-class monitor?
That looks like a 9.2"
Hello Chuck Hill,
it is not an M class monitor,but that is a 9.2" gun.
GrandLogistics.
Looks improvise. I would think
British
steam lugger
used to shell the seaward end of the German line
Hello Chuck Hill,
she was purpose built,she did see "war service" but I am not sure if she ever saw combat.
She did have a long life.
GrandLogistics.
In this form?
Hello Chuck Hill,
there is not much history available about this ship but as far as I am aware,this is how she was originally completed and how she stayed for thirty years or more.
I have no idea what she looked like for the next fifty years.
GrandLogistics.
Is it the HMS Excellent/Dryad/Drudge - a small gunboat used for weapons trials between 1887 - 1920? It was renamed a bunch of times for some reason.
Hello Anonymous,
yes,she is H.M.S. Drudge,a very imposing looking vessel.
Started life testing guns,taken over by the navy spending years as a gunnery school then retired from naval service in her thirties to serve another 50 years in civilian life.
She probably out lived most of her crew.
It would be interesting to know if she ever saw combat.
GrandLogistics.
Have any specs?
Hello Chuck Hill,
"Displacement of freak was 890 tonnes,with a length of 39.7 meters, 19.8 width of 1.83 m.I submerged steam engine with a capacity of 336 hp and fueled one of the screw
allowed reaching speeds of 8 knots."
Translated by Google,hence the odd language.
GrandLogistics.
Thanks, interesting.
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