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Latest revision as of 13:09, 9 April 2018
Three Vixen Class Gunboats were completed for the Royal Navy in the mid 1860s. An experimental, armoured design, they were unhandy and were not repeated.
| Overview of 3 vessels | |||||
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| Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Completed | Fate |
| Viper | J. & W. Dudgeon, Limehouse | 1864 | 21 Dec, 1865 | 1867 | Sold 1908 |
| Vixen | Lungley, Deptford | 1864 | 18 Nov, 1865 | 1866 | Broken up 1896 |
| Waterwitch | Thames Ironworks, Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Blackwall | 1864 | 28 Jun, 1866 | 1867 | Sold 1890 |
Design and Construction
See Also
Footnotes
| Vixen Class Armoured Gunboat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Viper | Vixen | Waterwitch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <– | Britomart Class | Small Fry (UK) | H.M.S. Staunch | –> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <– | Britomart Class | Gunboats (UK) | H.M.S. Staunch | –> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
