Ship Cover for the Sharpshooter class torpedo gunboats HMS Assaye (1890), HMS Gleaner (1890), HMS Gossamer (1890), HMS Plassey (1890), HMS Salamander (1889), HMS Seagull (1889), HMS Sharpshooter (1888), HMS Sheldrake (1889), HMS Skipjack (1889), HMS Spanker (1889), HMS Speedwell (1889), HMS Boomerang (1889) and HMS Karakatta (1889). The documentation primarily deals with the alterations made to ships in this class through the 1890s. The bulk of the paperwork therefore refers to the relative merits of different boiler and engine types, copies of contract letter templates, abstracts of tenders for alterations to machinery, tables of data, cost estimates, post-reconstruction reports and trials data. Other papers relate to vessel fittings, stores and weights, and some stability claculations. The Cover includes two overall reports from 1902 and 1904 giving the condition, equipment, machinery and present tasks of all torpedo gunboats serving with the RN in 1902 and 1904. Tables of crew complement are also present, although none are dated pre-1900. The earliest papers date from July 1894 when all members of this class had been in service a few years and ends in July 1910 by which point the surviving vessels had been converted for minesweeping or harbour/training service.