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Saturday, 10 March 2018

Portuguese gunboat Diu visited Surabaya, Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Soerabaijasch handlebar dated 18 April 1902

An item reported that arrival at 12.00 o’clock of the Portuguese warship Diu (1) commanded by 1st lieutenant Polycarpo coming van Singapore underway towards Timor with the intention to stay 2-3 days for coal bunkering.(2)

Notes
1. Launched by Arsenal da Marinha, Lisbon, Portugal on 27 August 1889, completed in 1889 and stricken in 1913.
2. The Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeemacht reported a visit of visited Soerabaja, Dutch East Indies between 18-23 April 1902 and Macassar, Dutch East Indies on 23 May 1902.