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Friday, 12 February 2016

British river gunboat HMS Cicala (1915) in 1923

A so-called large China gunboat. Launched in 1915, completed in 1916, displacement 645 ton, horsepower 2.000 hp, coal and oil-fired reciprocating machinery and an armament of 2-6” guns, 1-3” anti aircraft gun, 1-2pd gun and 8 machineguns.

Source
Archive Dutch Naval Staff 1886-1942 (National Archive at the Hague, Netherlands)  inventory number 155. Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries) on 1 February 1923.