in the shipbuilding yard of Messrs, John I. Thornycroft & Ca., Ltdy Southampton, was shipped in ses to Shanghai for xe-erection fat the Kiangman Dock. The keel was laid on April 6 and the com-ete re-erection prior to. being inded over to the British Admiralty is a matter of four months. Dimensions of the gunboat are as follow: Length 160. ft: breadth moulded 0° ft: depth ft: draft 2 ft: speed 114 knots, Her ma: chinery consists of twin reciprocate ing ible expansion engines of 200 lip. each and her armament consists of one 3.7 howitzer and one sixpounder.
The Sandpiper, which is to replace H. M. S. Moorhen, is the sixth river gunboat to be built for the flotilla the war; but she smaller than her predecessors. These were: four built under the 1025 programme, the Gannet,_ the Petrel, the Seamew, and the ern, and one under the 1928 programme, the Falcon. The Falcon was ship-herein parts in the same the Sandpiper, but did not arrive here on one vessel.
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