Note 179 — Chapter VII · 1854-1856. THE WAR IN THE CRIMEA.

One of the drafts had a narrow escape from shipwreck in the Sea of Marmora. Their transport, the s.s. Cleopatra, in the middle of the night of August 15th was in collision with another steamer, the Simla, which was so badly injured that her captain ran her ashore to prevent her from sinking in deep water; the Cleopatra was cut down to the water’s edge, but managed to reach the Golden Horn, where the troops were at once transhipped and sent on to Balaclava.