Delta - Chinese Gunboat built 1876<br>
Watercolour. Medium includes graphite. View from starboard of the iron-hulled gunship Delta (1876) (Chinese name Tche-tien or Ts'eTien) under way against a pale sky, smoke issuing from her single funnel. Rigged as a topsail schooner she has one gaff sail set aft with the two jibs and other sails loosely furled. Crew can be seen on deck.  Delta was two-masted, single screw frigate, lauched from the Low Walker Yard and commissioned into the service of the Chinese Navy.  She carried a single 12.5in muzzle loading Armstrong gun and was based at Shanghai as part of the Nanyang, Southern Seas Fleet.
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1876<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1876-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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