British screw steam gunboat HMS Rattler underway from the Cocos Islands towards Singapore according to the Dutch newspaper Java-Bode dated 13 August 1889

An item dated reported the passing of Nieuw Anjer, Dutch East Indies by the British warship HMS Rattler underway from the Cocos Islands towards Singapore.(1)

Note
1. Bramble-class screw steam gunboat launched by Armstrong Mitchell, Elswich, England on 4 August 1886, renamed HMS Dryad and training ship since 1919 and sold in 1924.