French river gunboat for the Mekong river completed in 1895

The Marine Engineer dated 1 July 1895 p. 143

The shipyard of Messrs. Marty&D’Abbadie on the Cua Cam built for the French government a light draugh stern wheel gunboat for service on the Mekong river. The name was not supplied in the article, on the bow is Haiphong visible. She was was entirely contructed and assembed at Haiphong, disassembled and transported in parts (weight of heaviest part was 5 cwts) from Saigon up the Meking river and reassembled on the Island of Khone. Dimensions 25 x 4 x 1 (hold) x 0,45 (draught) metres. At the moment was sister ship for the Yenbay under construction. The London and China Telegraph dated 7 June 1895 reports a launching on 29 April of their yard at Cua-Cam, Haiphong, Tonkin of the Yenbay spexial constructed for theri subsidized line on the Red River between  Hanoi and Laokay on the frontier of Yunnan, French Indochina. She was the 7th stern wheeler built in the Ateliers des Correspondances Fluviales at Haiphong, dimensions 115 (over all) x 20.6-23 (outside guard) x 4.6 (depth) feet and draught 22”. Boiler of the Admiralty gunboat type fuelled by firewood.