VOYAGE OF IMPLACABLE
TRAFALGAR RELIC AT PORTSMOUTH PORTSMOUTH', June 4. Another memorablo occasion in Portsmouth naval history was provided to-day, when the famous twodecker Implacable, which as the Dugimy Trouln fought tin* Victory at Trafalgar, entered the luirbor, having been towed from Falmouth on her last voyage. For the first time for 124 years—the last occasion being in the Baltic in 1 NOS—lmplacable, the sole survivor a flout of the famous battle, passed Victory. As she did. so her old adversary had a guard of mariius mounted and the ship's company manned sliiti. 'Pile bugles blow a salute, and the ensign was dipped.
Implacable will take up her moorings near the hardway and close to Victory as a. holiday training ship for cadets, Sea Scouts, and Boys’ Brigades.
Proudly flying a magnificent rod ensign, she entered harbor manned by 200 Sea Scouts, sons of local naval men, and was received with the stately naval honors accorded to a man o’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17845, 30 July 1932, Page 14
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