Surviving Timbers and Guns
In the 1850s, timber from the ship was used to make the billiard table, still in use today for the North Wing of Burghley House. Timber salvaged from the Royal George was also used to make the coffin for the famous menagerie owner George Wombwell who died in 1850. Several of the salvaged bronze cannon were melted down to form the base of Nelson's column in London's Trafalgar Square. A 24 pounder from the ship is part of the Royal Armouries collection and is on display at Southsea Castle.
Read more about this topic: HMS Royal George (1756)
Famous quotes containing the words surviving, timbers and/or guns:
“Never have anything to do with the near surviving representatives of anyone whose name appears in the death column of the Times as having “passed away.””
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“If the main timbers in the house are not straight, the smaller timbers will be unsafe; and if the smaller timbers are not straight, the house will fall.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Again the guns disturbed the hour,
Roaring their readiness to avenge,
As far inland a Stourton Tower,
And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)