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Class overview Name: Queensland Auxiliary Gunboats Builders: Walkers of Maryborough Operators: Queensland and Australia Preceded by: None Succeeded by: None Built: 1884 - 1885 In service: 1884 - at least 1901 In commission: 1884 - at least 1901 Completed: 5 Active: 0 Retired: 5 General characteristics Displacement: 450 tons Propulsion: Expansion steam engines Armament: 1 x BL 5-inch (127.0 mm) gun Benito 1 x 64 pdr With the formation of the Queensland Maritime Defence Force. To equip the new force the colonial government purchased two gunboats and a torpedo boat. However given the number of ports along the long Queensland coast it was realised that additional ships were required. Five ships had already been ordered for the Queensland Department of Harbours and Rivers when the decision was taken to convert them to also serve as Auxiliary Gunboats. This resulted in the fitting of a 5 in gun and the relocation of the boilers below the waterline. The ships were as follows: Bonito Bream Dolphin Pumba Stingaree These ships were built by Walkers at Maryborough and were the largest warships built in the Australian colonies before federation. The depression of the 1890s greatly curtailed operations with most of the vessels placed in reserve. Stingaree was listed until 1895 whilst Pumba remained on strength at the time of federation in 1901. Bream (1963), Dolphin (1963) and Stingaree (1966) were sunk off Tangalooma, Moreton Bay. One of the others worked in private hands on the Brisbane River into the 1990s. See also List of Queensland Maritime Defence Force ships Colonial navies of Australia - Queensland Bibliography Warships of Australia, Ross Gillett, Illustrations Colin Graham, Rigby Limited, 1977, ISBN 0-7270-0472-7