Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1895 — Plank Pierced by a Swordfish. [ARTICLE]

Plank Pierced by a Swordfish.

A portion of a swordfish’s sword, measuring about twelve inches in length, has recently been cut out of the copper bottom of a vessel lying at Shanghai. The sword had gone clear through three to four inches of pitch pine planking.