An item reported that the British defence vessel HMS Greenfly was towed to Nasiriya. Mesopotamia.
Note
1. Fly-class river gunboat, also called small China gunboat, especially designed for patrolling on the Tigris river, building ordered in February 1915, launched by Yarrow&Company in September 1915, paid off in March 1918 and sold at Basra, Iraq on 1 March 1923.
Source
The National Archives, Kew Gardens, England CAB/24/118/69
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