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UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office: Ros Marsden, our ambassador in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, shows us the gunboat which General Kitchener used to bombard Omdurman in 1898.
An article “Victorian Gunboats in the 21st Century” by Melik Society Chairman Henry Keown-Boyd was published by the British Museum in the latest issue of their Sudan and Nubia Magazine.
The aim of the Melik Society is to advance public awareness of Anglo-Sudanese history in the period 1883-1899 and subsequently, through the restoration and preservation of the river gunboat Melik and the paddle steamer Bordein.