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CHINESE SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY) - The Victorian Troopship HMS Orontes off Hong Kong c1880
- Notes: Designed by the Controller of the Navy and built by Lairds of Birkenhead, Orontes was lauched on 22nd December 1862. Displacing 4,857 tons and 300 feet in length she carried a token armament of 3-4 powder guns. Painted white, a colour reserved for troop transports, she gave thirty years of service carrying countless regiments to the four corners of the British Empire. Her most memorable voyage was in 1879 when she was selected to bring home to England, for burial, the body of the Prince Imperial (son of the exiled French Empress Eugenie) who had been killed in South Africa in the Zulu War.
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30 April 2007 15:00 AEST
Annandale, Australia
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