HMS Taku (1900)

Common card · No. 281904

HMS Taku was a Hai Lung-class destroyer captured by the Royal Navy during the Battle of the Taku Forts in the Boxer Rebellion. The destroyer was built by the Qing Dynasty as Hai Lung as part of an effort to rebuild the Navy following the First Sino-Japanese War. She reached China in 1899, captured by the British in 1900, and operated off Hong Kong as a tender until she was scrapped in 1916.