original art: drawing. Formerly mistakenly called 'Japanese battleships', this is a British armoured cruiser of the 'Warrior' class and only the 'Cochrane' and 'Natal' had three tops on the foremast. The rig matches that for 'Natal' for the 1910-1911 period. In those years and up to 1913, the 'Cochrane' had a range clock between the second and third tops on the foremast but 'Natal' did not. They both had the funnels raised in 1912 and this drawing shows the ship before that, so it must be the 'Natal' in the period 1910-11. She was launched on 30 September 1905, completed on 5 March 1907 and blew up in Cromarty Firth on 30 December 1915. The cause was an accidental explosion caused by faulty cordite in a magazine: maximum loss was 421 of whom a number were women and children on board for a visiting day. [BT/PvdM 5/18]