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 Queen hired. Number transport 4. Tonnage 3,511 tons. Horsepower 350hp. Rate per ton per month. If discharged at home 37s6d and abroad three montsh additional pay. Date of acceptance 2 September. Likely to sail early next week. now being prepared for service with the Abyssinian expedition at Liverpool. Engaged for six months certain.
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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