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Picked this up on a dutch naval forum. The steam launch from HMS Cressy (torpedoed 22 september 1914) was retained by the Dutch navy and was used as a patrol craft on the Dutch rivers, all the while named 'steam sloop 121 Cressy'. She was stricken in 1960, fate unknown.
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