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CHINESE SCHOOL (20TH CENTURY) - The Troopship Salamis (The Boxer Rebellion)
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Notes: inscribed on original mount: Troopship Salamis for China
The ''Salamis'' was requisitioned by the Admirality and renamed HMT 105. She was forced to join an international force under the Commander in Chief of the China station, Admiral Sir Edward Seymour, with the objective civil order and Western supremacy in China. The Salamis sailed from Melbourne with the Victorian contingent 30 July 1900. She sailed to Sydney to add the NSW contingent and departed for China on 8 August 1900. She arrived on the war front 9 September 1900, joining a great fleet of ships (estimated to have a strenght of 130 warships and transports) fifteen nautical miles off the mouth at the Hai Ho. The Australian brigade was committed to securing the land around Tientsin.
The Adelaide Observer remarked at the time, "for the first time in British colonisation a self-governing province was sending ''to the front'' a fully-equipped ship of war to take its place in the fighting line with vessels of the Royal Navy".
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