AN DLD WARSHIP.
There is now being broken np at Cowes one of the last of our old wooden warships that bad seen stiff fighting in their day. This is the old Nettle, which, for many years past has played an important part in the Navy as t':e hulk aboard which ar-mour-plates were* tested. She is—or rather was, until the ship breakers began riving up her decks—one of the oldest warships in existence. It was as the Comet that she began her career, and at St. Jean d'Acre she was in the thick of the fight. Later «he achieved some fame- by her singlehanded capture of the French frigate Le Sylph. So far back dees tlie Nettle date that her career us a fighting eh ip practically ended before our modern Navy came into being. These old chips are valuable to the '•knackera, ,, because of the copper rivets in their hulls. But nobody wants the obsolete ironclad; it is an unsaleable article.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11244, 9 April 1902, Page 7
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