In the same year as the Mercury, six of a class of nine steel-framed, iron-plated corvettes of the Comus class, were launched.
Kulo nyaka umnye nje iMekyuri, isithandathu solohlobo ithoba lesitili isakhelo, iayini egqume inqanawa ethile epheleka iinqanawa zorhwebo ezikwididi lekhomasi zandululwa.