The Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeemacht 1900-1901 reported that the British gunboat HMS Pigmy visited Padang, Dutch East Indies between 9 April-28 May 1901. The Dutch newspaper De locomotief dated 1 April 1901 reported that the British gunboat 1st class of 755 tons armed with 6 guns would leave Singapore on very short notice to Pading to prepare the British solar eclipse expedition.
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1. Composite screw steam gunboat launched by Sheerness Royal Dockyard on 27 July 1888, commissioned on 3 July 1889 and sold on 4 April 1905.
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