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Saturday 15 August 2015

French screw steam gunboat Lynx cruising in the Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Java-bode dated 13th June 1887

An item dated Batavia, Dutch East Indies 12th reported the arrival of the French steam warship Lynx captain Bennaur coming from Surabaya. Dutch East Indies.(1)

Note
1. Of the composite built Crocodile gunboat class, launched at the Arsenal de Cherbourg, France in 1878, stricken in 1899, with an armament of 2-5.5” guns, 2-3.9” guns and 2/4-1pd revolvers.