File:HMS Herald QE2 78.jpg
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DescriptionHMS Herald QE2 78.jpg | H.M.S HERALD ON THE ZAMBESI. This strange-looking little vessel is one of the very few ships of the Royal Navy whose cruising is entirely confined to fresh water. Drawing but a few inches, and furnished with a stern paddle-wheel which adds nothing to the boat's draught, the Herald can make her way through the shifting and shallow channels of the great African river. She has a small, but for the purpose a sufficient, armament, and with her crew of Bluejackets she may be relied upon to make the white ensign which she carries respected should occasion ever arise for her to show her teeth. At present she is, happily, employed as a herald of peace, and her duty is to maintain British influence and to display the British flag on the river which forms the entrance to the great route which runs from Chinde, at the mouth of the Zambesi, northward through the great lakes, lo be completed some day perhaps by a junction with the headwaters of the Nile. | |||
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between 1897 and 1899 date QS:P,+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1899-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Source | The Queen's Empire. Volume 2. Cassell & Co., London | |||
Author | Bourne & Shepherd, Calcutta for Cassell & Co. | |||
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