Probably have to take one to make good advances.
I went on board the Quanghung yesterday. She is strong, to bear heavily armed and can stow 12 hundred within.
This just the best of vessels we acquire for Hongkong for the lascars, of things which I put ...
in immediate trawls. I wish some arrangement by which we could hire this before. Some at the Admiralty (in case of her being taken over) could make the light be one of the commissioned vessels of the harbour.
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