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Wednesday, 26 December 2018

British gunboat Guendolen launched according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1899-1900 no. 6

An item referred to the magazine le Yacht reporting at Fort Johnston, Lake Nyassa [nowadays Mangochi. Malawi] the British gunboat Guendolen was launched.(1)

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1. Also called ss Gwendolen and Gwendolyn. Part of the British naval force on Lake Nyassa active against the Germans. In the 1920s she was used as cargo annex passengers ship by the Nyasaland Goverment Marine Transport. Nyasaland was a British protectorate became in 1964 Malawi.