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Tuesday 12 February 2013

British gunboat HMS Fantome visiting Tandjong Priok according to the Dutch newspaper De Sumatra Post dated 3 September 1915

An item referred to the newspaper Bataviaasch Nieuwsblad reporting that the same morning the British gunboat HMS Fantome (1)arrived at Tandjong Priok, Dutch East Indies and anchored in the harbour,

Note
1. In fact a sloop launched at the Sheerness dockyard on 23 March 1901, sold in 1925, measuring 1.070 tons, dimensions 185’x 33’ and armed with 6-4” guns and 4-3pdr guns.