Banterer-class gunboat

	HMS Wasp
Class overview
Name	Banterer class
Builders	Barrow Iron Shipbuilding; Pembroke Dockyard; Samuda Brothers;
Operators	Royal Navy
Preceded by	Forester class
Succeeded by	Albacore class (1883)
Built	1880–1882
In commission	1880–1907
Planned	13
Completed	11
General characteristics
Type	Composite screw gunboat
Displacement	465 tons standard
Length	125 ft (38 m)
Beam	23 ft 6 in (7.16 m)
Draught	10 ft (3.0 m)
Installed power	440 ihp (330 kW)
Propulsion	2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine; Single screw;
Speed	9.5 kn (17.6 km/h)
Crew	60
Armament	2 × 6-inch/64-pdr (56cwt) muzzle-loading rifles; 2 × 3.75-inch/20-pdr BL guns; 2 × machine guns;

The Banterer-class gunboat was a class of eleven gunboats mounting two 6-inch and two 4-inch guns, built for the Royal Navy between 1880 and 1892.

Class overview
HMS Wasp
Name	Banterer class
Builders	Barrow Iron Shipbuilding Pembroke Dockyard Samuda Brothers
Operators	Royal Navy
Preceded by	Forester class
Succeeded by	Albacore class (1883)
Built	1880–1882
In commission	1880–1907
Planned	13
Completed	11
General characteristics
Type	Composite screw gunboat
Displacement	465 tons standard
Length	125 ft (38 m)
Beam	23 ft 6 in (7.16 m)
Draught	10 ft (3.0 m)
Installed power	440 ihp (330 kW)
Propulsion	2-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine Single screw
Speed	9.5 kn (17.6 km/h)
Crew	60
Armament	2 × 6-inch/64-pdr (56cwt) muzzle-loading rifles 2 × 3.75-inch/20-pdr BL guns 2 × machine guns