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No. 59 - Canning

Liverpool, Brazil, and River Plate Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. (subsidiary of Lamport & Holt, Ltd.)

Master: H. Hammond
Chief Officer: B.H. Hall
Chief Engineer: T. Hood
2nd Officer: R.O. Lewis
3rd Officer: S. Taylor
2nd Engineer: A. Murray
3rd Engineer: W. Boyle / W. Caldwell / W.E. Goodwin


Admiralty Return, 13 Aug 1903

Date of Admiralty agreement: 13 Oct 1899
58th Transport to be engaged by the Admiralty
Carried cavalry only

Period of engagement: 30 Oct 1899 to 24 Apr 1900

Total days at sea: 99
Total numbers transported to South Africa: 18 officers, 2 warrant officers, 475 men, 414 horses
Total numbers transported from South Africa: NONE
Total cost (hire, fittings, coal and port dues): £46,163

Note: Canning made only one voyage with troops, returning from the Cape without passengers.









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No. 64 - Atlantian

F. Leyland & Co. (1900), Ltd.

Master: W.S. Wallace
Chief Officer: W.J. Dickinson
Chief Engineer: G.H. Jolly
2nd Officer: J. Troughton
3rd Officer: J. McCormick
2nd Engineer: J.R. Moore
3rd Engineer: H. Lowrie / G.W. Rutter / G.F. Shearer
Purser: J. Williams


Admiralty Return, 13 Aug 1903

Date of Admiralty agreement: 7 Nov 1899
63rd Transport to be engaged by the Admiralty
Carried cavalry only

Period of engagement: 16 Nov 1899 to 20 Jul 1901

Total days at sea: 174
Total numbers transported to South Africa: 47 officers, 2 warrant officers, 945 men, 827 horses
Total numbers transported from South Africa: 36 officers, 786 N.C.O.'s & men
Total cost (hire, fittings, coal and port dues): £188,507








The Bushmen's Contingent Souvenir, N.S.W. Bookstall Co., Sydney 1900, p. 10





.The 1st Tasmanian Bushmen Contingent leave the Hobart wharf for South Africa, 1900, photographed by J.W. Beattie.






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Neville_C wrote: No. 64 - Atlantian

F. Leyland & Co. (1900), Ltd.

Master: W.S. Wallace
Chief Officer: W.J. Dickinson
Chief Engineer: G.H. Jolly
2nd Officer: J. Troughton
3rd Officer: J. McCormick
2nd Engineer: J.R. Moore
3rd Engineer: H. Lowrie / G.W. Rutter / G.F. Shearer
Purser: J. Williams

Alec George Troughton, father of Patrick Troughton (the second Doctor Who), may also have been a naval man - I can't get a larger copy of the photo to be sure. Perhaps related to 2nd Officer J. Troughton?

m.facebook.com/troughtonpatrick/photos/a...fbid=960795474070169

No. 68 - Majestic

Oceanic Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. (White Star Line)

Master: Edward John Smith (Captain of the Titanic)
Chief Officer: J.O. Carter
Chief Engineer: J. Barber
1st Officer: A.E. Rimmer
2nd Officer: H.M. Dibb
Senior 2nd Engineer: A.H. Stewart
Junior 2nd Engineer: J. Furlong
Surgeon: A.W. MacKenzie


Admiralty Return, 13 Aug 1903

Date of Admiralty agreement: 13 Nov 1899
70th Transport to be engaged by the Admiralty

Period of engagement: 2 Dec 1899 to 11 Apr 1900

Total days at sea: 73
Total numbers transported to South Africa: 156 officers, 3 warrant officers, 3,585 men, 15 horses
Total numbers transported from South Africa: 53 officers, 481 N.C.O.'s & men, 2 women & children
Total cost (hire, fittings, coal and port dues): £121,393













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No. 74 - Cymric

Oceanic Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. (White Star Line)

Master: H. St G. Lindsay
Chief Officer: W.S. Atkin
Chief Engineer: H.C. Boyle
1st Officer: F.B. Howarth
2nd Officer: F. Mace
2nd Engineer: W. Rees
3rd Engineer: S. Wilson
Purser: H. McElroy


Admiralty Return, 13 Aug 1903

Date of Admiralty agreement: 12 Dec 1899
72nd Transport to be engaged by the Admiralty
Carried cavalry only

Period of engagement: 13 Dec 1899 to 10 May 1900

Total days at sea: 84
Total numbers transported to South Africa: 143 officers, 5 warrant officers, 2,661 men, 872 horses
Total numbers transported from South Africa: 15 officers, 214 N.C.O.'s & men
Total cost (hire, fittings, coal and port dues): £110,807









."Group of Imperial Yeomanry on SS Cymric" (originally posted by Paul Dunn)






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No. 76 - City of Rome

Anchor Line (Henderson Bros.) Ltd.

Master: W. Baxter
Chief Officer: J. Blaikie
Chief Engineer: J. Murray
2nd Officer: A. Moffat
3rd Officer: R.H. Brown
Senior 2nd Engineer: W. Grass
Junior 2nd Engineer: A. Gordon
Surgeon: A.C. Wilson


Admiralty Return, 13 Aug 1903

Date of Admiralty agreement: 21 Dec 1899
78th Transport to be engaged by the Admiralty

Period of engagement: 27 Dec 1899 to 24 Mar 1900

Total days at sea: 45
Total numbers transported to South Africa: 82 officers, 2 warrant officers, 1,823 men, 13 horses
Total numbers transported from South Africa: 17 officers, 238 N.C.O.'s & men
Total cost (hire, fittings, coal and port dues): £50,251


Dundee Evening Telegraph, 10th January 1900

CITY OF ROME AS A TRANSPORT.
ALMOST READY TO SAIL.
The work of fitting out the liner City of Rome as a transport at Greenock has been greatly expediated, and she will leave on Monday with the 3rd Battalion Lancashire Regiment. She will embark on Tuesday at Liverpool a further detachment of troops, and will also take on board at Queenstown the 4th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

ATTEMPT TO BLOCK BY SEAMEN’S UNION.
Our Glasgow correspondent says that the Seamen’s and Firemen’s Union are making an effort to block the Anchor Liner City of Rome, now being fitted out as a transport at Greenock. The firemen are holding out for £5 a month.


London Evening Standard, 10th January 1900

From Liverpool we learn that an alteration in the date of the sailing of the steamer City of Rome has been made by the Admiralty. She will leave the Clyde for Liverpool on Monday next, and on Tuesday will take on board at Liverpool 22 officers and 650 non-commissioned officers and men of the 3rd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, and, calling at Queenstown, will take on board the 4th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. At Queenstown the City of Rome will also embark 3 officers and 191 men of the Royal Garrison Artillery for Gibraltar. Before leaving the Clyde she will take on board a large quantity of stores.


Greenock Telegraph, 13th January 1900

THE S.S. CITY OF ROME.
After being fitted up as a transport in James Watt Dock, the Anchor liner City of Rome, now known as “transport 76”, left the dock about ten o’clock this afternoon, and proceeded to the Tail-of-the-Bank, where she will complete her coaling, and also take on board a quantity of hay before taking her departure on Monday for Liverpool to embark troops for South Africa.













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