THE MAN WHO SMASHED THE NAYY

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 944, 11 October 1910, Page 4

THE MAN WHO SMASHED THE NAYY

806;WA$si:ipsM •;'There-;died in../ London ,-in'-'-'August Mr.'*. Sidney, jNaih';: Castle,; of said. that )jhe destroyed more': warships ■ than ever Nelson did. Mr. Castle was a' shipbreaker, and was born in 1888, tho year in which his predecessors in business broke up the famous "Fighting Temerairo." Ho is stated to have broken up more than 800 ships with ah aggregate tonnage of 1,000,000. These included such vessels as ■ tho Saucy Arethusa, the Princess lloyal, the Collingwood, the Royal Albert, the Duko of Edinburgh, the Colossus, the Caulperdown, the Galatea (la which the late Duke of Edinburgh served as a midshipman), the Dido, the Gibraltar, the Duke of Wellington, the Algiers, the Hannibal,, the Edgar, the 'Formidable, the Impregnable, with the wholo of the class of twelve early wood-built armour-plated ships, the Ocean, tho Research, the Royal Oak,- the Enterprise, the Favourite, tho Lord Warden, the Prince 'Consort, the Pallas, the Caledonia, the Zealous, the Lord Clyde, and the Repulse; and the Indian troopships Euphrates and Scraois."' It was in the Serapis that King Edward VII, when Prince of Wales, made Ttho voyage to India in 187 S. 'Among tha more recent ships which *ere broken up bv Mr. Castle's firm on the Thames* wore 'the Ajax, the Alexandra; the Undaunted, the Conqueror, the Sniftsure, ,and the Thunderer. The London premises of the firm at the foot cf Vauxhall Bridge are well known, and tho figureheads that adorn the gateways ' attract attention.