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 mule transport Ventia for service in the Mediterranean. Number transport 18. Tonnage 755 tons. Horsepower 150hp. Rate per ton per month. If discharged aA home 34s6d and abroad 44s6d. Date of acceptance 3 September. Likely to sail not yet known. Now being prepared for service with the Abyssinian expedition at Devonport. Engaged for three 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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