Friday, May 04, 2007

Naval Brigade: Ships

The Naval contingent attached to the expeditionary force consisted of 150 seamen and 400 Royal Marines. They came from a number of ships lying off Suakin which joined others at Trinkitat to offload the Expeditionary force.


HMS Hecla
(lying off Suakin 1884)



HMS Dryad
(wooden screw sloop)



HMS Briton
(wooden screw corvette-this is her sister ship HMS Thetis)



HMS Carysfort
(steel corvette-this is her sister ship HMS Constance)



HMS Euryalus
(Flagship - iron screw corvette)


HMS Iris

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