Paper, 'A relation of a sword-fish, that had struck his sword through a three inch plank of an English ship' by Richard Tylor Tylor shares observations concerning the damage caused to a ship off the coast of Newfoundland [Canada] by a swordfish (Xiphias gladius). The ship was bound for Alicante [Spain] and laden with dry fish when Tylor noticed a leak which had been caused by a swordfish. Subject: Zoology / Ichthyology Read to the Royal Society on 27 May 1675 May 1675