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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Bill Ellis built some fine model boats.

A model built by the late Bill Ellis.  It shows the steam, the stern paddle wheel river gunboat, named the EL FATEH. Built at Wivenhoe Shipyard in 1896 by Forrestt and co ltd. for the Kitchener Nile expedition against forces of the Mahdi in the Sudan.

Dimentions  lengtht on deck 140 feet, beam 24 feet.

Speed            14 miles per hour.

Armament   1 12 pounder Q.F. gun.2. 6 pounder Q.F. Guns,  1 Nordenfeldt Howitzer.
                      2, batteries of maxim guns.

Commander of the boat was Lt. David Beatty R.N.

The boat wears the flag of the Khedive of Egypt.
The gun boats were built in sections and reassembled in Alexandria.
There were two other gun boats of the same dimensions , the En-Naser  Ez-Zafeh

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