Redbreast-class gunboat

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|Ship image=HMS Sparrow (1889).jpg

|Ship caption=HMS Sparrow

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|Name=Redbreast-class gunboats

|Builders=*Pembroke Dockyard

• Sheerness Dockyard
• Devonport Dockyard
• Scotts of Greenock

|Operators=*{{navy|United Kingdom}}

• 24px New Zealand Government
• File:Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg British Merchant Navy

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|Cost=*Between £38,000 (Widgeon)

• and £39,300 (Ringdove)

|Built range=1889

|In service range=

|In commission range=1889–1921

|Total ships building=

|Total ships planned=

|Total ships completed=9

|Total ships cancelled=

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|Total ships laid up=

|Total ships lost=1

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|Header caption={{cite book |first1=David |last1=Lyon |first2=Rif |last2=Winfield |date=2004 |title=The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889 |location=London |publisher=Chatham Publishing |isbn=9781861760326 |oclc=52620555 |pages=299–300}}

|Ship class=Redbreast-class first-class gunvessel

|Ship displacement=805 tons

|Ship length={{convert|165|ft|0|in|m|abbr=on|1}} pp

|Ship beam={{convert|31|ft|0|in|m|abbr=on|1}}

|Ship draught={{convert|11|ft|0|in|m|abbr=on