A relic which an RAF technician said he salvaged from the wreckage of a famous 18th Century ship is set to go under the ...

for a combination of metals possessing different electric characters for the sheathing of ships. The alloy is made by melting two and a half parts of copper in one crucible ; in another nine parts ...

The piece of copper sheathing - plating used to protect the hull - from HMS Bounty is set to be auction in February.

Mr Bull contacted an expert on copper sheathing, John Bingeman, who said the stamp was likely put on by workers at Mines Royal, who produced the sheets which were later hammered on to the ship's hull.

These relics of HMS Bounty are sheathing nails that were used to fix protective copper sheathing to hull ... The remains of the ship lay undisturbed on the bottom until 1957 when a National ...