HMS Niger (1892)
Niger | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Niger |
| Builder | Naval Construction & Armament, Barrow |
| Laid down | 17 September 1891 |
| Launched | 17 December 1892 |
| Commissioned | 25 April 1893 |
| Fate | Torpedoed and sunk, 11 November 1914 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Alarm-class torpedo gunboat |
| Displacement | 810–835 long tons (823–848 t) |
| Length | 74 m (242 ft 9 in) |
| Beam | 33 m (108 ft 3 in) |
| Draught | 8.2 m (26 ft 11 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 three-cylinder steam engines |
| Speed | 18.7 knots (34.6 km/h; 21.5 mph) |
| Complement | 91 |
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HMS Niger was a torpedo gunboat launched in 1892, converted to a minesweeper in 1909, and sunk in 1914 by the German submarine SM U-12 near Deal.