05/03/1885 - 16/04/1885

Via Plymouth (6 Mar), Naples (13 Mar), Port Said (17 Mar), Suez (19 Mar), Diego Garcia (1 Apr). A minor panic occurred when the green signal light on the Post Office tower was confused with a white light to alert volunteers of a Russian invasion. Watchers in the town hall rang the alarm bell and volunteers rushed to their depots to arm themselves.