An item reported the launching at the Kawasaki shipyard, Kobe, Japan of the Chinese gunboat Tchore-Tai with a displacement of 552 tons and as dimensions 61 x 9 x 2,50 metres. Speed 12 miles. The armament consisted of 2-12cm guns, 2-7,6cm guns and 4 machineguns. Five more gunboats were being built.(1)
Note
1. This must be the Chu-class gunboats of which the first - Chu Tung- was launched on 12 June 1906 and the Chu Tai on 25 September 1906.
