An item dated London, England
the 21st reported the British frigate HMS Shah (1) was ordered to
join immediately the British squadron in the Besika bay.(2)
Notes
1. Non armoured
iron hulled wooden sheathed frigate laid down as the Blonde at the Portsmouth
Dockyard on 7 March 1870, launched 10 September 1873, renamed Shah in 1873,
completed in December 1875, commissioned on 14 August 1876, stricken in December
1904, converted into the coal storage hulk C 470, sold on 19 September 1919 and
finally wrecked in Bermuda. Armament 2-9” rifled muzzle loading guns, 16-7” rifled muzzle loading guns,
8-5” breech
loading guns, 3 quick firing guns, 12 machineguns and 4 torpedo launchers.
2. Probably as a result
of the protests by the Balkan Slavs (Christians) in Bosnia,
Serbia, Herzegovina and Bulgaria
against the Ottoman empire. A year declared
the Russian empire war on the Ottoman empire.
The Besik Bay
is a small bay at the mouth of the Hellespont,
Asiatic Turkey.
