Merlin, 1901
Type: Survey Service ; late Sloop ; Armament 6 x 4 " ; 4 x 3 pdr ;
Launched : 30 Nov 1901 ; Disposal date or year : 1923
Displacement: 1070 tons
Machinery notes: 1,400 ND
Notes:

5 Nov 1913 Re-commissioned at Hong Kong

Aug 1914 Surveying Service (at Home and Abroad)

5 Aug 1914 at Hong-Kong - p. 312 www.naval-review.org/issues/1915-2.pdf.

In later years armament reduced for Survey Service

1917-> lent or temporarily attached for survey duties on the Red Sea Patrol - see p. 49-> www.naval-review.org/issues/1926-1.pdf.