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Sunday, 23 December 2012

Dutch torpedo boat Etna rearmed in England according to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 17 February 1886

An item reported that the evening before at the Nieuwediep the torpedo boat 1st class Etna arrived. She was escorted by the pilot transport steamboat Coertzen. The Etna commanded by lieutenant 1st class B. de Groot returned from England where she was fitted out to launch so-called fish torpedoes.