Aluminium built warships according to the Dutch magazine De Nijverheid dated 28 August 1895

An item reported that in several occasions aluminium was used in the shipbuilding industry and supplied some examples. In 1891 was the first aluminium boat fitted out with a naphta engine built by Esscher, Wijss&Co. at Zurich. In 1892 ordered count Chabannes la Palice the building of his 10 tons yacht called Vendenesse. Since then were for the French government two detachable aluminium sloops built called Etienne and Davoust to serve in her African colonies and was the British shipyard ordered to built an aluminium torpedo boat fro he French navy. After trials were for 1896 another five torpedo boats of this kind ordered. At Creusot was men designing an aluminium torpedo boat of a larger model. For the expedition towards Madagascar were five launches and some gunboats ordered. The Dutch government ordered the building of two gunboats at Esscher, Wijss&Co. for service in the Dutch East Indies and for the German colonies was soon an aluminium steamboat on Lake Victoria in service.