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HMS Rattlesnake
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HMS Rattlesnake

Fast attack craft

Country of origin United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
ManufacturerCammell Laird
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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Introduced
1886
Entered service
1886

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Model data: Wikidata (CC0) and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Figures can differ between versions of the same weapon. · Q869385