Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1897

Mr. Adam to Mr. Sherman.

British Embassy,
Manchester, Mass., July 21, 1897.

Sir: With reference to your note to Mr. Tower, No. 719, of the 2d instant, respecting the number of vessels employed on patrol duties in Bering Sea during the present season, I have the honor to inform you, in compliance with an instruction from the Marquis of Salisbury, that Her Majesty’s Government have decided to send a third vessel, Her Majesty’s ship Amphion, to Bering Sea, besides Her Majesty’s ships Wild Swan and Pheasant.

I have, etc.,

C. F. Frederick Adam.