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the "Voyagers" on shore in the foreground) THE LONDON GRAPHIC; Nov.
29, 1884.
WHALERS ON THE NILE BY DOUG JOHNSON
(REVISED AND EXPANDED BY LYNN BODIN)
NOTE : This article first alJpeared in SAVAGE AND SOLDIER, Vol.
V NO. 4.
Once the British Government decided to send a Relief Column to
rescue General Gordon from Khartoum, the next most pressing problem
was how to transport 7,000 troops with their supplies up the Nile
to the fron-tier . The jou rney as far as the Second Cataract was
fairly easy . A fleet of large Nile paddle steamers al-ready
existed and they were subsequently contracted to carry and/ or tow
Wolseley ' s army as far as Wady Haifa, 793 miles south of Cairo .
The remaining dis-tance to Korti , the proposed forward base camp,
would have to be navigated in some other form of boat .
Remembering his experiences with small boats during the 1870 Red
River Campaign in Canada, Wolseley suggested that the troops could
ascend the Nile in small sail and man-powered whaleboats.
Considerable debate followed, but Wolseley' s plan was finally
adopted. Once the decision was made, orders were placed in late
August 1884, with 47 different British firms for the construction
of no less than 800 " whaling gigs" , half to be delivered in 30
days, and the other half in 60 days . The first boats were
completed early in September and acceptance trials run in Britain
pro-nounced them suitable for the task at hand .
The boats were not all identical, but they did follow similar
plans. The following dimensions come from four different sources
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BOAT DIMENSIONS
Source length Beam Depth Weight Symons 28 ' 5 ' 6" 2 ' 0" N/ A
Stacey 32 ' 6 ' 9" -7 ' 0" 2 ' 6" -2 ' 8" N/ A Illustrated London
News 30 ' 6 ' 6" 2 ' 6" 10cwt London Graphic 30 ' -32 ' 6 ' 9" 2 '
6" 920lbs
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member that the boats were made by 47 different firms . The
boats were equipped with two masts each carrying a lug sail on a
boom. The sails could be worked while reefed (partially furled) so
as to allow the fitting of an awning to protect the men from the
sun . The boats were made of lightweight wood (the ILN says fir,
while the (London) GRAPHIC states 'white pine' ), were painted
white, and were numbered consecutively from 1 to 800. The whalers
bore their numbers on each side of the bow and on each sail.
Additional equipment in-cluded twelve oars with oarlocks, a rudder,
yoke and tiller, six poles for movement over shallows, and two
lanterns -one for the masthead and one for the stern . All boats
had white lanterns except for 45 designated as picket boats which
carried red lanterns. The estimated cost for each completed boat,
with the equipment listed, was 100 Pounds .
The dead-weight cargo of each whaler weighed in at from
6000-7000 pounds . Included in these supplies were 86 provision
boxes, each no higher than eight inches (so they could fit under
the seats, etc .) and weighing 60 pounds, 1000 pounds of stores and
utensils and 600 pounds of ammunition (350 rounds per man on board)
. Trials in England with the first boats, carrying a full load of
equipment, stores and men, gave very favorable results .
Surprisingly, the boats had four inches more freeboard than
originally estimated , so it was decided to include even more cargo
. Each whaler was now given, in addition to what has already been
listed, a 15-man bell tent, a charcoal cooking stove, a filter,
fishnets and lines (to provide supplements to the rations from
home) and a Flanders cooking kettle with a top that doubled as a
frying pan . It is worth mention-ing that the 60 pound provision
boxes were designed to be stacked along the sides of the boats,
between the oarlocks, to provide emergency cover from possible
sniper fire . With everything on board it was estimated that the
whaleboat and its crew could, if need be, become a fully
self-sufficient unit for as long as 100 days.
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