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Friday, 21 February 2020

British screw gun vessel HMS Lizard left the Dutch East Indies towards Australia according to the Dutch newspaper Java-bode dated 3 April 1888

An item dated Batavia, Dutch East Indies 3rd reported the departure of the British steam warship Lizard captain Portol or Portal towards Australia at 06.00 o‘clock from the harbour of Tandjong Priok.(1)

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1. Composite built, launched at the shipyard of Harland&Wolff, Belfast, Ireland on 27 November 1886 and finally sold to be broken up at Sydney, Australia in 1905. Main armament consisted of 6-4”guns.