An item reported that recently the British hospital ship Spartan departed towards South Africa to care there for the wounded and sick.(1) She was a beautiful screw steamship of almost 3,500 tons built in 1881 at Glasgow and now complete fitted out as a hospital even with a lift for the wounded or sick which were allowed to be moved. Further more were doctors and nurses on board.
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.
