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Name: TRENT
Type: Gunboat
Keel:
Launched: 23/08/1877
Completed: 1877
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 345
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
09/1905 Renamed PEMBROKE
06/1917 Renamed GANNET
21/02/1923 Broken up
Comments: Member of the Medina class
Fitted with 3 masts and barquentine rig of sails to extend their range
1892: May have been rearmed
06/1917: Re-classified as a diving tender
21/02/1923: Broken up at Dover by Dover Shipbreaking Co


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



Photo as PEMBROKE

Jarrow Express, Saturday, 25/08/1877