Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1919 — MAKE SHIP OF TWO WRECKS [ARTICLE]

MAKE SHIP OF TWO WRECKS

British Join Prow of One and Stern of Other and Have New Destroyer. Washington.—A novel example of naval salvage is now on duty with the British fleet in H. M. S. Zubian, an almost modern destroyer, which In structure as well as in name is the successor of txyo destroyers damaged during the war. < When H. M. S. Nubian was run down and almost cut in half, it was learned at the navy department, the after portion of the ship, less than two-thirds of the'original vessel, was brought into, port and the work of rebuilding undertaken. Before great progress had been made, however, the destroyer Zulu, a sister ship, was similarly run down, and than a third of her stern sheared away. British engineers were prompt to see the opportunity, and within a short time the stern of the Nubian had been combined with the undamaged bow of the Zulu and the complete’ destroyer launched and commissioned as the Zubian.

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