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Wednesday, 31 December 2014

British gunboat HMS Pigmy passing Anjer, Dutch East Indies coming from the Cocos Islands according to the Dutch newspaper Java-bode dated 4 July 1893

An item reported that the British HMS Pigmy passed that morning at 07:45 o’clock Anjer, Dutch East Indies [nowadays Anyer] coming from the Cocos Islands.(1)

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1. Composite screw gunboat launched at the Sheerness Dockyard, England on 27 July 1888 and sold in 1905. The armament consisted of 6-4” guns and a displacement tonnage of 755 tons.