HMS Wasp (1880)

	HMS Wasp
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Wasp
Builder	Barrow Iron Shipbuilding
Yard number	71
Launched	5 October 1880
Commissioned	1 December 1881
Fate	Wrecked on 22 September 1884; Wreck sold in November 1910;
General characteristics
Class and type	Banterer-class gunboat
Displacement	465 tons
Length	125 ft (38.1 m) pp
Beam	23 ft 6 in (7.2 m)
Draught	10 ft (3.0 m)
Installed power	360 ihp (270 kW)
Propulsion	2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine; Single screw;
Sail plan	Barquentine
Speed	9+1⁄2 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph)
Range	40 tons coal
Complement	60
Armament	2 × 6-inch/64-pdr (56 cwt) muzzle-loading rifles; 2 × 4-inch/20-pdr BL guns; 2 × machine guns;

HMS Wasp was a Banterer-class composite screw gunboat of the Royal Navy, built in 1880 by Barrow Iron Shipbuilding and wrecked off Tory Island in 1884.

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