British paddle steam transport Trent in the Crimean War on 8 December 1854

According to a list of the return of the disposition in the Black Sea on 8 December 1854 drawn up by Captain and Principal Agent of Transports P. Christie, “Harbinger”, Balaklava, Crimea: number transport -, present position Malta, remarks for mules from Spain.

The Crimean War found place between 16 October 1853-30 March 1856 between Ottoman Empire, France, United Kingdom and Sardinia at one side and Russia and Greece on the other side. The British Government chartered a large number of merchant ships for transporting troops and stores.

Source

Reports from Committees: eight volumes. 3-Part II. Army before Sebastopol. Session 12 December 1854-14 August 1855. Vol. IX-Part II.

British paddle steam transport City of London in the Crimean War on 8 December 1854

According to a list of the return of the disposition in the Black Sea on 8 December 1854 drawn up by Captain and Principal Agent of Transports P. Christie, “Harbinger”, Balaklava, Crimea: number transport 66, present position Eupatoria, remarks conveying live stock from Eupatoria to Balaklava.

The Crimean War found place between 16 October 1853-30 March 1856 between Ottoman Empire, France, United Kingdom and Sardinia at one side and Russia and Greece on the other side. The British Government chartered a large number of merchant ships for transporting troops and stores.

Source

Reports from Committees: eight volumes. 3-Part II. Army before Sebastopol. Session 12 December 1854-14 August 1855. Vol. IX-Part II. 

British paddle steam transport Tonning in the Crimean War on 8 December 1854

According to a list of the return of the disposition in the Black Sea on 8 December 1854 drawn up by Captain and Principal Agent of Transports P. Christie, “Harbinger”, Balaklava, Crimea: number transport 65, present position Constantinople, remarks commissariat cattle ship.

The Crimean War found place between 16 October 1853-30 March 1856 between Ottoman Empire, France, United Kingdom and Sardinia at one side and Russia and Greece on the other side. The British Government chartered a large number of merchant ships for transporting troops and stores.

Source

Reports from Committees: eight volumes. 3-Part II. Army before Sebastopol. Session 12 December 1854-14 August 1855. Vol. IX-Part II. 

British paddle steam transport Europa in the Crimean War on 8 December 1854

According to a list of the return of the disposition in the Black Sea on 8 December 1854 drawn up by Captain and Principal Agent of Transports P. Christie, “Harbinger”, Balaklava, Crimea: number transport -. , present position Varna, Bulgaria, remarks to convey Turkish troops to Eupatoria. The Crimean War found place between 16 October 1853-30 March 1856 between Ottoman Empire, France, United Kingdom and Sardinia at one side and Russia and Greece on the other side. The British Government chartered a large number of merchant ships for transporting troops and stores.

Source

Reports from Committees: eight volumes. 3-Part II. Army before Sebastopol. Session 12 December 1854-14 August 1855. Vol. IX-Part II. 

Proposal by Peter Borrie for a 19th Century anonymous steam floating battery

Described as an improved safety iron twin steamship by engineer Peter Borrie, No. 3 Crescent, Minories, London, England.

Note

1. PeterBorrie (8 March 1802-South Latch, Abernyte, Perthsire, Scotland-10 January 1856 Middlesborough, England). Came in 1832 with the side connecting rod Borrie engine, designed by himself. Of Peter Borrie&Co., Tay Foundry, Dundee, Scotland producing marine engines for ships, parts of iron ships and locomotives, since 1840, went bankrupt in 1842-1843, apparently inventory sold in April 1846, established a shipyard at Middlebrough, England in 1853. Held a patent for a Safety Iron Twin Steamer dated 1850. Named Gemini was she suitable for transporting good, persons and cattle, mainly built of iron with two separate hulls placed side by side, with them them the paddlle box. At each end of this paddle box were deckhouses positioned. She was to serve on rivers and had a lenght of 157.5 feet, a beam on deck of 26.5 feet, with each hull being 8.5 broad and a space of 9.5 feet between them. If she was to serve at sea was her boam to be increased in proportion to length and the trade.

Sources

Website Royals Museums Greenwich Collection search. ID NPD0516 and 0517.

The Artizan, May 1844, p. 115

British paddle steam transport Sea Nymph in the Crimean War on 28-10-1854

According to a list of the return of the disposition in the Black Sea on 28 October 1854 drawn up by Captain and Principal Agent of Transports P. Christie, “Melbourne”, Balaklava, Crimea: number transport --, present position Balaklava, Crimea, remarks with cargo of charcoal for the army; waiting for orders.

The Crimean War found place between 16 October 1853-30 March 1856 between Ottoman Empire, France, United Kingdom and Sardinia at one side and Russia and Greece on the other side. The British Government chartered a large number of merchant ships for transporting troops and stores.

Source

Reports from Committees: eight volumes. 3-Part II. Army before Sebastopol. Session 12 December 1854-14 August 1855. Vol. IX-Part II. 

British paddle steam transport Avon in the Crimean War on 28-10-1854

According to a list of the return of the disposition in the Black Sea on 28 October 1854 drawn up by Captain and Principal Agent of Transports P. Christie, “Melbourne”, Balaklava, Crimea: number transport --, present position Odessa, Ukraine, remarks conveyed provisions to Her Majesty’s ships there.

The Crimean War found place between 16 October 1853-30 March 1856 between Ottoman Empire, France, United Kingdom and Sardinia at one side and Russia and Greece on the other side. The British Government chartered a large number of merchant ships for transporting troops and stores.

Source

Reports from Committees: eight volumes. 3-Part II. Army before Sebastopol. Session 12 December1854-14 August 1855. Vol. IX-Part II. 

British paddle steam transport Orinoco in the Crimean War on 28-10-1854

According to a list of the return of the disposition in the Black Sea on 28 October 1854 drawn up by Captain and Principal Agent of Transports P. Christie, “Melbourne”, Balaklava, Crimea: number transport --, present position Cponstantinople, Turkey, remarks under orders or rear admiral Boxer.

The Crimean War found place between 16 October 1853-30 March 1856 between Ottoman Empire, France, United Kingdom and Sardinia at one side and Russia and Greece on the other side. The British Government chartered a large number of merchant ships for transporting troops and stores.

Source

Reports from Committees: eight volumes. 3-Part II. Army before Sebastopol. Session 12 December 1854-14 August 1855. Vol. IX-Part II. 

British paddle steam transport Medway in the Crimean War on 28-10-1854

According to a list of the return of the disposition in the Black Sea on 28 October 1854 drawn up by Captain and Principal Agent of Transports P. Christie, “Melbourne”, Balaklava, Crimea: number transport --, present position Katcha, remarks waiting orders.

The Crimean War found place between 16 October 1853-30 March 1856 between Ottoman Empire, France, United Kingdom and Sardinia at one side and Russia and Greece on the other side. The British Government chartered a large number of merchant ships for transporting troops and stores.

Source

Reports from Committees: eight volumes. 3-Part II. Army before Sebastopol. Session 12 December 1854-14 August 1855. Vol. IX-Part II. 

British paddle steam stransport Cambria in the Crimean War on 28-10-1854

According to a list of the return of the disposition in the Black Sea on 28 October 1854 drawn up by Captain and Principal Agent of Transports P. Christie, “Melbourne”, Balaklava, Crimea: number transport --, present position Constantinople, Turkey, remarks convyed wounded troops.

The Crimean War found place between 16 October 1853-30 March 1856 between Ottoman Empire, France, United Kingdom and Sardinia at one side and Russia and Greece on the other side. The British Government chartered a large number of merchant ships for transporting troops and stores.

Source

Reports from Committees: eight volumes. 3-Part II. Army before Sebastopol. Session 12 December 1854-14 August 1855. Vol. IX-Part II. 

British paddle steam transport Trent in the Crimean War on 28-10-1854

According to a list of the return of the disposition in the Black Sea on 28 October 1854 drawn up by Captain and Principal Agent of Transports P. Christie, “Melbourne”, Balaklava, Crimea: number transport --, present position Varna, Bulgaria, remarks sent to bring military stores remaing there. The Crimean War found place between 16 October 1853-30 March 1856 between Ottoman Empire, France, United Kingdom and Sardinia at one side and Russia and Greece on the other side. The British Government chartered a large number of merchant ships for transporting troops and stores.

Source

Reports from Committees: eight volumes. 3-Part II. Army before Sebastopol. Session 12 December 1854-14 August 1855. Vol. IX-Part II. 

French river gunboat for the Mekong river completed in 1895

The Marine Engineer dated 1 July 1895 p. 143

The shipyard of Messrs. Marty&D’Abbadie on the Cua Cam built for the French government a light draugh stern wheel gunboat for service on the Mekong river. The name was not supplied in the article, on the bow is Haiphong visible. She was was entirely contructed and assembed at Haiphong, disassembled and transported in parts (weight of heaviest part was 5 cwts) from Saigon up the Meking river and reassembled on the Island of Khone. Dimensions 25 x 4 x 1 (hold) x 0,45 (draught) metres. At the moment was sister ship for the Yenbay under construction. The London and China Telegraph dated 7 June 1895 reports a launching on 29 April of their yard at Cua-Cam, Haiphong, Tonkin of the Yenbay spexial constructed for theri subsidized line on the Red River between  Hanoi and Laokay on the frontier of Yunnan, French Indochina. She was the 7th stern wheeler built in the Ateliers des Correspondances Fluviales at Haiphong, dimensions 115 (over all) x 20.6-23 (outside guard) x 4.6 (depth) feet and draught 22”. Boiler of the Admiralty gunboat type fuelled by firewood. 

Merchant and warships arriving at Gibraltar according to the Kriegsnachrichten of the Chef des Admiralstabes der Marine dated Berlin 14 August 1917

An item reported that between 6-10 August arrived at Gibraltar coming from the east: 10 armed British steamships; as part of a convoy: 1 Italian auxiliary cruiser, 1 armed British steamship, 2 Belgian (?) steamships, 1 Japanese steamship, 1 Norwegian steamship, 2 armed British steamships, 1 Danish steamship and 1 armed Italian steamship-1 armed French steamship, 1 armed Italian steamhip, 2 with 2 guns armed Italian steamship, 2 with 2 guns armed British paddle steamships.

Source

Bundesarchiv RM-40-622

Dutch inland paddle steam passenger ship (ex-Rheinland 1926-1965, Rüdesheim 1965-1999) De Majesteit 1999-

Off Krimpen aan den IJssel, Netherlands 24 May 2026

Netherlands-flagged, ENI 02323194, MMSI 244660875 and call sign PD2147. Built by Gebr. Sachsenberg, Köln-Deutz, Germany in 1926, sunk at Kaiserwerth on 12 March 1945, recommissioned in 1951. 

British paddle steam transport Emperor in the Crimean War on 28-10-1854

 According to a list of the return of the disposition in the Black Sea on 28 October 1854 drawn up by  Captain and Principal Agent of Transports P. Christie, “Melbourne”, Balaklava, Crimea: number transport 67, present position Balaklava, Crimea, waiting for orders.

The Crimean War found place between 16 October 1853-30 March 1856 between Ottoman Empire, France, United Kingdom and Sardinia at one side and Russia and Greece on the other side. The British Government chartered a large number of merchant ships for transporting troops and stores.

Source

Reports from Committees: eight volumes. 3-Part II. Army before Sebastopol. Session 12 December 854-14 August 1855. Vol. IX-Part II. 

British paddle steam transport City of London in the Crimean War on 28-10-1854

According to a list of the return of the disposition in the Black Sea on 28 October 1854 drawn up by  Captain and Principal Agent of Transports P. Christie, “Melbourne”, Balaklava, Crimea: number transport 66, present position Constantinople, under orders of rear admiral Boxer.

The Crimean War found place between 16 October 1853-30 March 1856 between Ottoman Empire, France, United Kingdom and Sardinia at one side and Russia and Greece on the other side. The British Government chartered a large number of merchant ships for transporting troops and stores.

Source

Reports from Committees: eight volumes. 3-Part II. Army before Sebastopol. Session 12 December 854-14 August 1855. Vol. IX-Part II. 

British paddle steam transport Tonning in the Crimean War on 28-10-1854

According to a list of the return of the disposition in the Black Sea on 28 October 1854 drawn up by Captain and Principal Agent of Transports P. Christie, “Melbourne”, Balaklava, Crimea: number transport 65, present position Balaklava, Crimea, landing horses of Turkish troops.

The Crimean War found place between 16 October 1853-30 March 1856 between Ottoman Empire, France, United Kingdom and Sardinia at one side and Russia and Greece on the other side. The British Government chartered a large number of merchant ships for transporting troops and stores.

Source

Reports from Committees: eight volumes. 3-Part II. Army before Sebastopol. Session 12 December 854-14 August 1855. Vol. IX-Part II. 

Hired British ship Brinkburn for French expedition to Madagascar in 1895

With the First Madagascar Expedition (May 1883-December 1885) started the Franco-Hova War. In December 1885 was a Treaty signed which the French interpreted as being a Protectorate Treaty which was denied by Queen Ranavalona III. The result was the Second Madagascar Expedition December 1894-1 October 1895) ending in Madagascar becoming a French colony (1897-1958). The Malagasy Republic was an autonomous French territory until she became independent as the Democatric Republic of Madagascar in 1975.

Supplied by Messrs. Tatham, Bromage&Co., contractors for freightage of river material to Mojanga. Departed from Port Said on 16 April. Loaded with 12 paddle gunboats in sections namely the Espiègle, Eclatante, Impéteuse, Insolente, Précieuse, Poursuivante, Rusée. Zé, Bravo, Infernale, Invincible and Vigilante (last 4 gunboat-tugs. Delayed at Malta.

Source

Captain Pasfield Oliver, “The Madagascar expedition”: The United Service Magazine, volume XI. New Series. April 1895 to September 1895, p. 136-137. 

The Romanian navy on the Danube in 1874

An item reported that the Romanian government possessed for service on the Danube the paddle steam warships Romania and Stefano cel Mare, the first one with 40, the latter 60 hp and armed with 4-4p Krupp breech-loading guns. The Stefano cel Mare was to be used as royal yacht. Further more was at Toulon, France a river monitor under construction which was to be disassembled and sent by rail to Galatz where she was to be assembled.

Source

Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesen, Volume II, Pola, 1874, p. 104. 

Romanian government ordered building of several warships in 1894

An item reported that the Romanian government supposedly should order at the German shipyard Schichau at Elbing the building of 4 smaller gunboats and 4 torpedo boats. In England were the torpedo boats Monteano, Olteano and Smeo under construction. On behalf of the Prut river shipping was the paddle steamship Prutul with a displacement of 23 tons bought.

Source

Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens,volume XXII, Pola 1894, p. 244.