H.M.S. Kinsha, the flagship of Rear-Admiral Barrett, C.B., commanding on the Yangtze, is to be shortly offered for sale.
This vessel which was originally built by the late Mr, Archibald Little for service on the Upper Yangtze, to travel up and down the Gorges, was sold by him to the British Government, we believe, about the Boxer year. She will be sold, presumably, by auction. The old vessel was nothing much to look at, but she was reputed to be the most comfortable vessel travelling on the Yangtze and there are many who will regard her disappearance, from service under the white ensign with very real regret.
A brilliant theory has been ad-vaneed in one quarter that she could very well be moored alongside the Bund to serve as a hotel*
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