Portuguese gunboat Patria 1903-1931

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Built with the funds of the Great National Subscription after the 1890 British Ultimatum when Portugal claimed a large area between her colonies Mozambique and Angola covering most of Zimbabwe and Zambia and a large part of Malawi resulting in witdrawing Portuguese forces from areas which both countries claimed. Launched at Lisbon, Portugal on 27 June 1903, sent to the Macau Naval Station in 1908 and sold to China in 1931. 

Zambian landing craft Zambia Challenger launched at Dordrecht, Netehrlands according to the Dutch newspaper Gereformeerd gezinsblad dated 21 August 1967

An item reported that at the Dutch shipyard N.V. scheepswerf en machinefabriek De Biesbosch-Dordrecht at Dordrecht the landing craft Zambia Challenger of around 1.400 tons was launched for Zambia. She was baptized by the High Commissary for Zambia Lusaka and built in order of the Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Export Centrale at The Hague.