An item reported that in the afternoon a day earlier the torpedo boat Batok was launched at the navy yard at Amsterdam. She was to be towed to Flushing to be fitted out there at the shipyard of the Kon.Mij. De Schelde with a steam engine. Another newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 30 October reported her arrival at the shipyard of the Kon. Mij. De Schelde at Flushing of this torpedo boat large model. She was towed from Amsterdam by the steamboat Zeeland In Flushing she would receive her triple compound engine built there. At the navy yard Amsterdam was already her boiler placed which was also manufactured by the De Schelde.
