HMS Rattlesnake

HMS Rattlesnake was a unique design of torpedo gunboat of the Royal Navy. A result of the Russian war scare of 1885, she was designed by Nathaniel Barnaby that year and built by Laird Brothers, of Birkenhead. Quickly made obsolete by the new torpedo boat destroyers, she became an experimental submarine target ship in 1906, and was sold in 1910.

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1886  Wikimedia, Wikidata
torpedo gunboat, Royal Navy, Cammell Laird, 

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1886 HMS Rattlesnake

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keel laying

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ship launching

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ship commissioning

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Frameless

HMS Rattlesnake (1886)

The Naval Manoeuvres, County Cork - ILN 1888

The Gun-Boat Rattlesnake coming to Admiral Baird's fleet with news of the enemy - ILN 1889

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
link	page		Dreadnought Project page@		Wikidata
commons	image		HMS Rattlesnake (1886)		Commons
commons	image		The Naval Manoeuvres, County Cork - ILN 1888		Commons
commons	image		The Gun-Boat Rattlesnake coming to Admiral Baird's fleet with news of the enemy - ILN 1889		Commons