Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Olney.

British Embassy,
Washington, May 22, 1896.

Sir: With reference to my note of the 27th ultimo, in which I had the honor to inform you that Her Majesty’s Government would direct the employment of an additional cruiser this season in policing the Bering Sea seal fisheries, I have been directed by Her Majesty’s secretary of state for foreign affairs to communicate to you the names of the three cruisers which have been ordered to undertake the patrol service during the present season. They are H. M. S. Pheasant, Satellite, and Icarus.

I have, etc.,

Julian Pauncefote.