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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20893, 8 June 1931, Page 6

BACK TO TRAFALGAR.

THE OLD IMPLACABLE.

DUKE OF YORK'S APPEAL

Tho Duko of York made ail appeal recently for tho preservation of H.M.S. Implacable—tho last survivor of Trafalgar afloat—as a holiday training ship for boys. He was speaking at a luncheon in aid of the fund at Fishmongers' Hall. "The committee do not want to mako professional seamen,' 1110 Duke said, "their aim is wider. 'I hey want hoys of nil social ranks lo bo able (o spend their holidays on board the ship; boys from the British Isles, frori tho Dominions s and the colonies, and boys, too, from the United States, who sharo so closely our sea traditions "When the Implacable was doomed to the shopbreakers' yard in 1903," the Duke continued, "the lain Mr. Geoffry Wheatlv Cobb, who, with his father, had already fcaved Nelson's Foudroyant, obtained .i /respite by an appeal to King Edward. For 17 years he kept her at Falmouth at his own expense, and five years ago £25.000 was raised for her restoration. "To Mr. Cobb's memory,*' the Duke added, "tho British people owe the £30,000 which is needei as an endowment fund for the Irnplacable's permanent, maintenance, and without which she canrot lie considered safe. If this sum can- . not be obtained she is once more in danger of the shopbreakers. After all the care and money spent on her that fate is unthinkable " Lord Lloyd, who presided, announced that the Duke was among those who had contributed to the fund.