Stinkpot (weapon)

A stinkpot or stink-pot was an incendiary and suffocating weapon used in the 19th century by China, especially in naval operations.

British Admiral Sir William Robert Kennedy recorded the use of the stinkpot in 1856 during the Second China War in his book Hurrah for the Life of a Sailor - Fifty Years in the Royal Navy. He described it as:

Describing the method of use of the stinkpot, Kennedy writes:

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