3-085-632 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Chinese Crisis: H.M.S. Humber, screw store-ship, British Squadron, China Station, 1898. '1640 Tons; 800 Horse Power. [One of the] vessels forming the China Squadron, which will, at any rate, put in to winter quarters at some port not far from those now occupied by Russia and Germany, even though no more active service be required of it for the present. The exact destination of the British fleet is not at present known'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.