TOPIC:

'A send-off at Melbourne
Australian Contingents leaving on the 'Medic''

The Orcana at Durban

Source`; www.angloboerwar.com/forum/19-ephemera/3...-jack?start=60#93411

No. 43 - Cheshire

Bibby Bros. & Co.

Master: E.W. Burnett
Chief Officer: H. Richmond
Chief Engineer: J. Jack
2nd Officer: H.P. Langston
3rd Officer: C.S. Whitworth
2nd Engineer: R. Hunter
3rd Engineer: R. Hall / W. Low
Surgeon: J.D. Beavis / A.W.A. Irwin


Admiralty Return, 13 Aug 1903

Date of Admiralty agreement: 7 Oct 1899 (but did not enter into pay until 26 Oct 1899)
53rd Transport to be engaged by the Admiralty.
Carried Infantry only.

Period of engagement: 26 Oct 1899 to 22 Jun 1900

Total days at sea: 141
Total numbers transported to South Africa: 111 officers, 4 warrant officers, 3,770 men, 10 horses
Total numbers transported from South Africa: 20 officers, 593 N.C.O.'s & men
Total cost (hire, fittings, coal and port dues): £68,683



.Nov 1899 - Apr 1900





Lantern slide with caption "Soldiers embarking on s.s. Cheshire". The men shown are members of the Army Service Corps.
Shipping returns show the s.s. Cheshire leaving Liverpool (Harrington Dock) on Nov 9 1899, with 1st Bn Gordon Highlanders; ASC (Reservists); and No 7 Company RAMC (Field Hospital).







SEE ALSO: No. 43 - Cheshire


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No. 49 - Pindari

T. & J. Brocklebank Ltd

Master: N. Bannatyne
Chief Officer: A. Fell
Chief Engineer: S.D. Pierce
2nd Officer: J.M. Tomlinson
Aux. 2nd Officer: R.M. Bley
3rd Officer: G.W. Jackson
2nd Engineer: J.A. Boyd / G.T. Greenhalgh
3rd Engineer: W.L. Gelderd


Admiralty Return, 13 Aug 1903

Date of Admiralty agreement: 11 Oct 1899
28th Transport to be engaged by the Admiralty.
Carried Cavalry only.

Period of engagement: 11 Oct 1899 to 25 Jul 1900

Total days at sea: 166
Total numbers transported to South Africa: 47 officers, 1 warrant officer, 1,290 men, 1,176 horses
Total numbers transported from South Africa: 7 officers, 227 N.C.O.'s & men
Total cost (hire, fittings, coal and port dues): £78,233



.Oct 1899 - May 1900











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The CIV troop deck on the Garth Castle at dinner hour

Source: www.angloboerwar.com/forum/19-ephemera/3...-jack?start=78#94196

At the next Noble Numismatics auction is a picture of the Persic but there is no image of the lot.

Described as:

BOER WAR, print of a painting of the Boer War transport ship, S. S. Persic, mat framed under perspex with a decorative golden timber frame (approx 70x52cm), together with research. Uncirculated.

In 1899 S. S. Persic transported British troops to the Boer War and after some repairs she took home Australian casualties from the war. During WWI she served again as a troopship until she was torpedoed by a German U-boat. Despite being damaged she was able to make it back to port under her own power. After the war she was refitted as a passenger vessel with the White Star Line.