According to a letter dated Admiralty, Somerset House 6th September of the Director of Transport Services W.R. Mends to the Under Secretary of State for India was the iron screw steam transport City of Dublin. Number transport 2. Tonnage 1,999 tons. Horsepower 250hp. Rate per ton per month if discharged at home 35s0d and abroad 435s0d. Date of acceptance 39 August. Likely to sail early next week. The British Abyssinian Expedition found place between 4 December 1867-13 May 1868 against the Ethiopian Empire or Abyssinia to release the imprisoned missionaries and representatives of the British government.
Source
Accounts and papers: thirty-five volumes. Army. Abyssinian expedition. Session 19 November 1867-31 July 1868. Vol. XLIII., p. 115.
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