Sections to be Shipped to Shanghai The new gunboat Robin is shortly to be shipped in sections to Shang hai, where she will be re-erected and commissioned for service. 'The Robin, which was laid down on April 8 Inst by. Messrs. Yarrow and Ca. at their S works, is the seventh river gunboat to' be built the War. The Sandpiper, ordered a year earlier from Messrs. Thornycroft and Ca, Woolston, arrived here in the spring and was commissioned in August. She is now serving in the Yangtze Flotilla. The Sandpiper, it, will be recalled, was specially designed for service in the lakes during the low-water season,
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