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2 Clasp Transport Medal 1899
Original price was: £2,200.00.£2,100.00Current price is: £2,100.00.Transport Medal 1899 Clasps South Africa 1899-1902, China 1900. Edward VII
W. J. Nicholls. Confirmed on roll as serving on P&O Company's S.S. Formosa serving as 3rd engineer for both campaigns.
Only 178 2 clasp medals were issued form a total 1719, 66 to engineers.
Condition as shown in photographs
FORMOSA (1892)
Base data at 12 April 1892. Last amended November 2008 * indicates entries changed during P&O Group service.
Type
P&O Group service P&O Group status Former name(s)
Registered owners, managers and operators
Builders Yard Country Yard number
Registry
Official number Signal letters Classification society
Gross tonnage Net tonnage Deadweight
Length Breadth Depth Draught
Engines Engine builders Works
Country
Power Propulsion Speed
Passenger capacity Cargo capacity Crew
Employment
Passenger/cargo liner 1892-1909
Owned by parent company
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Naval Construction & Armaments Co Ltd Barrow-in-Furness
UK
196
Barrow, UK 93427
Lloyd’s Register
4,045 grt 2,616 nrt 5,734 tons
117.31m (385.0ft) 13.77m (45.2ft) 8.53m (28.0ft)
7.744m (25ft 5in)
Triple-expansion steam engine
Naval Construction & Armaments Co Ltd Barrow-in-Furness
UK
3,000 ihp Single screw 11 knots
30 first class
7,460 cubic metres (263,500 cubic feet)
India and Far East ‘intermediate’ services
0161 1892/0412
Career
12.03.1892: 07.04.1892: 12.04.1892:
1899:
1900: 23.07.1904:
26.07.1904:
1908:
09.1909:
Launched.
Registered.
Sailed from the builders as Formosa for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
Requisitioned for service as a troopship during the Boer War. Trooped to China.
Seized by the Russian cruiser Smolensk in the Red Sea on the suspicion that she was carrying contraband to Japan.
Arrived at Suez and released the following day following Government intervention. The Russian Government subsequently paid compensation.
Laid up in Royal Victoria Dock, London, after failing to reach her reserve price at auction.
Sailed for Bo’ness where she was broken up by Forth Shipbreaking Company Ltd.
