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Hello,

I'm glad this thread is proving useful.

You are correct in surmising that the Dunolly Castle wasn't a numbered transport. She was engaged by the Admiralty in the capacity of a Freight Ship (Men).
The 1903 War Office Return shows that the ship was engaged on 7 Feb 1901, embarking 6 officers & warrant officers, and 530 men at Southampton on 16 Feb (bound for Cape Town).
She was engaged for a second time in 1902, leaving Cape Town for Southampton on 10 Jul 1902, with 33 officers and 850 men on board.

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Hi,

Yes the thread has been very useful, and some of the pictures are brilliant. Thank you for the info, the outbound trip in Feb 1901 was the movement I was tracking with the
Northumberland and Durham (55th Coy) IY embarked. I hadn't realised she had only made a couple of trips so makes sense that she wasn't numbered.

Thanks again

Five recent acquisitions (also added to appropriate transport pages)

For index of Transports, see: Transport Ships - complete list with forum links




.R.A.M.C. and S.J.A.B. boarding the Orotava at Birkenhead, 23 Feb 1900 (No 24 Field Hospital, and No 5A General Hospital)







Two photographs of the Orotava leaving Cape Town on 28 Nov 1900, with 800 invalids on board (including 14502 Tpr A. Montagu Holden, Rough Riders, to whom these two prints once belonged).





.3rd Battalion Imperial Yeomanry boarding the Winifredian, Liverpool, 28 January 1900





.8th Battalion I.Y. horses on board the S.S. Afric at Liverpool, prior to sailing on 11 February 1900.



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3rd I.Y. Image reversed.

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Peter, I'm pretty sure the 3rd I.Y. print is the correct way round.




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