An item dated Singapore 27 August reported that the Thais gunboat Makut Raja Kumar (1) departed a day earlier to Batavia with on board a complete delegation in name of the king to represent him during the coronation celebrations of the Dutch queen Wilhelmina. She brought with her gifts.
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1. This is probably the steel-built gunboat Mongkut Rakakumarn purchased by Siam in 1891 as the Spanish Filipinas and stricken after 1930. She had a displacement of 700 tons and as dimensions 53,34 x 7,16 x 3,35 metres or 175’ x 23’6” x 11’. Her crew numbered 100 men and she was armed with 2x1-4’7” gun, 3x1-1pd gun and 1-14” surfaced torpedo tube.
