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Saturday 15 August 2015

German screw steam gunboat Nautilus via Batavia Dutch East Indies underway from Singapore towards Yemen according to the Dutch newspaper Java-bode dated 13th June 1887

An item dated Batavia, Dutch East Indies 11th reported the arrival of the German steam warship Nautilus captain Hovens coming from Singapore. On the 13th departed she towards Aden, Yemen.(1)

Note 
1. Wood-built screw steam gunboat of the Albatross-class, launched at the Kaiserliche Werft Danzig on 31 August 1871, stricken on 14 December 1896, served as a coal hulk until she was broken up at Swinemünde in 1905, her armament consisted of 2-12cm guns.