HMS Waitemata (1883)

History
A Defender-class torpedo boat, clearly showing the spar torpedo
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Waitemata
Ordered:	26 August 1882^[1]
Builder:	John I. Thornycroft & Company
Cost:	£12,600 for four boats
Yard number:	170^[1]
Launched:	30 August 1883^[1]
Commissioned:	19 September 1883^[1]
General characteristics
Class and type:	Defender-class torpedo boat
Displacement:	12 tons
Length:	62 ft 10 in (19.15 m)
Beam:	7 ft 6 in (2.29 m)
Installed power:	173 hp (129 kW)
Propulsion:	Two-cylinder compound-expansion steam reciprocating engine 130lb/sq in Locomotive boiler,
Speed:	17.3 kn (32.0 km/h)
Complement:	7^[1]
Armament:	One McEvoy Spar torpedo Two 18" Whitehead torpedoes One 2-barrelled Nordenfelt gun^[1]

HMS Waitemata was a colonial service Defender-class torpedo boat designed by Thornycroft & Company for the defence of New Zealand, built at Chiswick in 1883 and shipped to New Zealand.

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 Winfield (2004) p.316

Sources

The New Zealand Maritime Index
Winfield, Rif & Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.

Defender-class torpedo boats

Defender Taiaroa Waitemata Poneke

Preceded by: Acheron class Followed by: Childers

Colonial service torpedo boats

Victoria	Childers Nepean Lonsdale Gordon Countess of Hopetoun

New South Wales	Acheron class

Tasmania	TB 191

Queensland	Mosquito Midge

New Zealand	Defender class

See Colonial navies of Australia and Early naval vessels of New Zealand

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