Designed and built to be used for preventing the smuggle of opium in the Dutch East Indies. Her building was ordered on 4 June 1892, laid down at the shipyard Kon. Mij. De Schelde, Vlissingen, Netherlands with yard number 80 on 31 August 1892, in thrushes on 19 November 1892, plated on 14 January 1893, launched on 25 March 1893, technical trial on 20 June 1893, official trial on 30 June and 4 July 1893, departed to the Dutch East Indies on 30 July 1893 and finally sold in 1929 to the French government in Indo-China after being refitted to be used as patrol vessel against sugar smugglers.
Gross register tonnage 363.882 tons, net register tonnage 163.297 tons, displacement 129 (at launching)- 436 tons. Dimensions 57,35 (between perpendiculars)-58,52 (over all) x 7,03 x 3,66 (hold) metres or 188’0”-192’0” x7’10”-8’0” (maximum) 23’0”x x 12’0”. Draught at launching was 1,12 (fore)-1,15 (aft) metres. Coal bunker capacity 98 ton. Two masts of which the foremast had one yard. Rigged. Steam driven steering gear and anchor winch. The hull was divided in 9 watertight compartments. Galvanized steel made hull with one deck of teak. One cylinder (No. 181) with 5 fires, pressure 160lbs, heating surface 3.248 square feet and grid surface 71,7 square feet, an auxiliary boiler (No. 185) and 1 3-cylinder 220 rpm triple compound steam engine with a horsepower of 1.680 ihp allowing a speed of 17,5 knots.
