 A foremast stood behind the conning position and was fitted with a derrick.She was armed with a QF 12-pounder gun located in the forward gun position; five QF 6-pounder guns, four of which were arranged along her sides and one located centrally on a raised platform towards her stern, as a rear gun; and a pair of torpedo tubes on a horizontally rotating mount located on deck towards the stern, ahead of the rear gun.The crew numbered 63 officers and men, for whom the accommodation on this type of ship was "very cramped; usually the captain had a small cabin but ... other officers lived in the wardroom."