Thistle, 1898
Type: GunBoat: 1st Class ; Armament 2 - 4 inch, 4 - 12 pdr., 4 or 6 machine guns
Launched : 1898-99 ; Displacement: 710 tons
Complement: 90
Machinery notes: Designed H.P. 1300=139 kts. Yarrow boilers, Coal: 145 tons.
Notes:

4 Mar 1914 Recommissioned at Hong Kong

Aug 1914 Eastern Fleet - China Squadron, China Station

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