An item dated Rotterdam, Netherlands 16th reported the arrival at Dakar of the Dutch tug Rode Zee towing the British warship Penelope underway from Cape Town, South Africa towards Genoa, Italy.(10
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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.
