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Petty Officer 2nd Class F.P. Edge was one of five Sailors and Marines from H.M.S. Powerful to receive the 'Cape Colony' clasp. H.M.S. Powerful was stationed off South Africa from 14.10.1899 to 27.3.1900.
To H.M.S. Fame and H.M.S. Whiting fell the unenvious task of capturing four Chinese Destroyers that threatened the Allied attack on the Taku Forts. Commanded respectively by Lieutenants Roger Keyes (afterwards Admiral of the Fleet) and Mackenzie, each ship towed a whaler manned with a boarding party of 12 men, the whole drawn from volunteers from each ship's company. With one or two notable exceptions, such as the Altmark incident off Norway in 1940, it was to be one of the last occasions on which Bluejackets boarded their foe armed with cutlasses.
To H.M.S. Fame and H.M.S. Whiting fell the unenvious task of capturing four Chinese Destroyers that threatened the Allied attack on the Taku Forts. Commanded respectively by Lieutenants Roger Keyes (afterwards Admiral of the Fleet) and Mackenzie, each ship towed a whaler manned with a boarding party of 12 men, the whole drawn from volunteers from each ship's company. With one or two notable exceptions, such as the Altmark incident off Norway in 1940, it was to be one of the last occasions on which Bluejackets boarded their foe armed with cutlasses.