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Saturday 15 July 2023

German torpedo boat (ex-Hai Jing 1898-SMS Taku 1898-1913

Source Bundesarchive RM 3/22928 French photo album 1900

Launched as Chinese destroyer Hai Jing, by F. Schichau, Elbing, Germany with yard number 608 in 1898, seized by the British in June 1902, handed over to Germany, commissioned as German torpedoboat SMS Taku on 14 July 1902, decommissioned on 30 December 1913. Homeport Tsingtao. 

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