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Name: ESK
Type: Gunboat
Keel:
Launched: 28/04/1877
Completed: 1877
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 343
Dimensions: 363disp, 110.0 x 34.1 x 8.5(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x 2cyl, 60nhp, 310ihp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 9.5knots
Construction: Iron
Armament: 3 x 1 x 64pdr guns; (1892: 2 or 3 x 1 x 4.7ins QF guns?)
History:
1877 British Royal Navy
04/1903 Sold
Comments: Member of the Medina class
Fitted with 3 masts and barquentine rig of sails to extend their range
1892: May have been rearmed
04/1903: Sold at Hong Kong


Above photo of sister MEDINA is copyright of Allan C Green

Above photo of sister MEDINA is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo of sister MEDINA is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Jarrow Express, Saturday, 05/05/1877