ABSTRACT
Three days out from the shelter of Marmaris Abercromby's ill-luck with the weather struck again. The wind turned foul and a gale blew up. In the heaving troopships crockery smashed in the ward-rooms and four dozen bottles of English porter that Lord Dalhousie had been saving for the landing spilt their contents on the deck. When the storm abated on 28 February the entire day was lost in collecting the scattered fleet. The Greek horse transports and Turkish gunboats had vanished utterly.!
