An item
reported that on the 13th 33° South
and 18° East the Dutch tug Rode Zee was
hailed underway from Cape Town, South Africa towards Genoa, Italy towing the
aged warship Penelope.(1)
Note
1. This
must be the British armoured corvette HMS Penelope laid down at the Pembroke
Dockyard on 4 September 1865, serving at Simonstown,
South Africa as
receiving ship after 1887 and as prison ship after 1897. Several websites
claimed that she was broken up at Cape
Town in 1912. This can’t be true regarded this news
item.
