Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1901 — Battleship Not a Bird. [ARTICLE]

Battleship Not a Bird.

It is related that Julian Corbett, the naval expert and author of “Drake and the Tudor Navy” and “The Successes of Drake,” wrote some time ago to tin* Britisli admiralty office suggesting that a new first-class battle ship in course of construction be christened, the Drake. A formal acknowledgment of the receipt of tlie letter was followed by a dignified reply expressing the admiralty's regret at not being able to carry ont Mr. Corbett's suggestion, and explaining that it would be contrary to all precedent to name a first-class battle-ship after a bird.