An item referred to the magazine le Yacht reporting that at Liverpool the British gunboat HMS Britomart (1) was launched destined to serve on African rivers. With a displacement of 710 ton were her dimensions 54,9 x 10,05 x 0,245 (medium) metres. She was fitted out with two independent triple expansion engines and 2 tube boilers supplying with natural draught 900 ihp and with forced draught 1.300 ihp allowing an expected speed of 13,05 miles. Her armament was to consist of 2-10,2cm quick firing guns and 10 Maxim machineguns. Her crew numbered 70 men.
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1. 1st class gunboat launched at the shipyard of Potter, Liverpool on 28 March 1899 and which was sold at Bombay on 6 October 1920 and afterwards renamed Sakuntala.
