Navy (merchant cruisers and transports). Return showing the number, names, owners, tonnage, amount of hire paid, sums expended in fitting as cruisers, and subsequent restoration as merchant steamers, of the merchant steamers chartered by the Admiralty for employment as naval cruisers; and of the merchant steamers chartered by the Admiralty for employment as transports for troops or stores, hospital or tank vessels, in connection with the Egyptian campaigns since 1 September 1883; &c [electronic resource].