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Tuesday, 28 July 2020

The British troop transport Perzia arriving at St. Vincent according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 10 November 1899

An item reported that Lloyds at London received from St. Vincent the tiding that the transport Perzia arrived there with damage. She was underway towards South-Africa with a squadron dragoons.(1) The newspaper Vlissingse Courant dated 10 November published an item dated St. Vincent dated 9 November that the Perzia arrived there heavily damaged.

Note
1. The Second Boer War found place between 11 October 1899 and 31 May 1902 and ended in a defeat of the Boers and regaining British sovereignty of the Orange Free State and South African Republic (Transvaal). In 1920 became the Union of South Africa part of the Commonwealth.