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 Manchester. Number transport 1. Tonnage 1,906 tons. Horsepower 450hp. Rate per ton per month. If discharged at home 34s0d and abroad 45s0d. Date of acceptance 30 August. Likely to sail early next week. 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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