French torpedo boat Lansquenet supporting burning British 4-master Dundonald according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsch nieuwsblad dated 4 September 1899

An item dated Boulogne-sur-mer 2 September reported that at 01.00 o’clock a serious fire broke out on board of the British 4-master Dundonald which arrived from Calcutta with on board a cargo of jute. Eighteen spray brands and the destroyer Lansquenet (1) were fighting the fire assisted by infantry.

Note

1. She was according to Conway’s All the world’s fighting ships 1860-1905 in fact a seagoing torpedo boat of a revolutionary launched on 18 May 1893 at the shipyard of Oriolle, Nantes, not earlier accepted as in 1898 and commissioned in 1900, after a collision laid up, and sold in 1905.