RELIC OF TRAFALGAR
TWO HUGE ANCHOR SWIVELS. Near Melbourne (Victoria) there is a shipping centre called Williamstown and on the foreshore are two huge anchor swivels. Thirteen thousand miles away there is a place called Cape Trafalgar; the famous battle was fought there nearly a century and a-half ago, and these anchor swivels were on H.M.S. Bellerophon. The ship was captured by Nelson at the Battle of the Nile, and fought in line with the famous Victory at Trafalgar. The swivels were transferred to a ship called the Nelson, which was Victoria’s first battleship. How the famous relics ever came to be left stranded on the shore and allowed to become half-embedded in sand is a mystery, and there is an agitation to have them housed in the National Museum that one more link between the Old Country and the new may be preserved.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1938, Page 11
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