London, Jan. 20.
The British gunboat Grasshopper, the second of two shallow draft gunboats built for service with the Yangtze Flotilla by Messrs. John Thornycroft & Ca., was launched from Southampton yesterday by Mrs. R. G. Howe, wife of the British)
Charge d'Affaires in China.
The Grasshopper has a displacement of 585 tons, and embodies considerable improvements in her armament. She carries four-inch guns, and protection and living accommodation for a crew of 74—Reuter.
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