ROMAN “DREADNOUGHT.”

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 265, 28 October 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

ROMAN “DREADNOUGHT.”

I.7’X)-YEAR-fH.|) A’ESS’El,'* KELT HOME IN LONDON.

A UNIQI E SPEC IMEN-

A Roman vessel which has been lyin.t under tho mud at the bottom of 'the Thamo-: for 1,700 years wad safely deposited at Kensington Palace recently. It was the Roman baigo which wie recently found on the site of the County Hall at Lambeth, and it was beins. taken to a ‘‘dry dock” at the ricwlyfounded London Museum.

T'm work of t ransferring this spl Jid oxamp'o of a Romac Dreadnought. ya« begun at throe o clock on Thurmay morning. Lakin,g, the Keeper of the Museum, saw the ffreciourt relic, safe iu the shed which has been built for her.

The beat weighs close upon thirty tnns of oak an! tho prole,-tiro shell that ha.s been built around her 1> ittfle timbers weigh,-, another eight stone.

Tnero is no ether specimen in th* wor ; d ot a Roman ship with whioh io compare her The boat wan built keel, libs end planks of Gallic oak. AVhen her s.koletiui was nnonrthod last year her time and water-loggod blackened <imbor‘; were so soft that, they could be cut with a spade. Since then the action of the air has helped to Itanden the timber.