Laburnum musical instruments. In addition to such wind instruments as recorders and flutes, it was a popular wood for Great Highland Bagpipes before taste turned to imported dense tropical hardwoods such as "Brya ebenus" (cocus wood), ebony, and "Dalbergia melanoxylon" (African monkeywood). The heart-wood of a laburnum may be used as a substitute for ebony or rosewood. It is very hard and a dark chocolate brown, with a butter-yellow sapwood. "Laburnum" species and hybrids are cultivated as ornamental trees for gardens and parks. They are also trained as espaliers on pergolas, for ceilings of pendant flowers in season. In its natural
HMS Laburnum (1915) Rock, causing "Mantola"s crew to abandon ship. "U-81" remained in the vicinity until chased away by "Laburnum" when she arrived on the scene hours later. "Laburnum" rescued 176 survivors of "Mantola"s passengers and crew (seven crewmen had been killed by a capsizing lifeboat) but attempts to talk the steamer in tow failed, and "Mantola" sank on 9 February. On 17 February 1917, the Q-ship was torpedoed by the German submarine , but after a "panic party" faked abandoning ship, "U-83" surfaced near "Farnborough" and was sunk by shellfire from the Q-ship. "Farnborough" herself was badly damaged by the torpedo, and