Antoine Vannerさんのイラストまとめ

HMS Quebec & the French Surveillante fought in 1779 perhaps the most ferocious frigate action of the Age of #FightingSail. But it was marked by magnanimity in victory & heroism in defeat. Click: https://t.co/BJvHzjYzaf #NavalHistory #RoyalNavy

A survivor’s memoir is quoted in this account of the loss of the '74' HMS Namur, in a storm off India’s east coast of in 1749. Telling of a disaster that claimed some 500 lives, it still has the power to move. Click: https://t.co/90Sq5ku4oX #18thcentury #NavalHistory #RoyalNavy

HMS Proserpine, #RoyalNavy frigate, ran aground in the Elbe Estuary in winter 1799. Enveloped by snow and battered by floating ice, she began to break up. What followed was an epic of survival. Part 1 of 2-part article. More next week! Click: https://t.co/yAgT1Cn4DF #NavalHistory

When #RoyalNavy frigate HMS Proserpine grounded in the Elbe Estuary in winter 1799 she was enveloped by snow. Battered by floating ice, she began to break up. An epic of survival followed. Part 1 of 2-part article. More next week! Click: https://t.co/yAgT1Cn4DF #NavalHistory

1804: #RoyalNavy “74” ship-of-the line HMS Venerable was driven ashore in a gale. What followed involved however courage, professionalism, leadership and skill of the highest order under her 67-year old captain. Click: https://t.co/eb55FK268Z #NavalHistory #Napoleonic

1796: HMS Southampton and her crew, on blockade duty off Toulon, were responsible for one of the most spectacular captures of an enemy vessel, against all odds, in the Age of Fighting Sail. Click: https://t.co/ieKF8BZEgw #RoyalNavy #MaritimeHistory #18thcentury #Napoleonic

1796: HMS Southampton’s capture of a French corvette close inshore & protected by powerful enemy shore-batteries was one of the most spectacular exploits of the Age of Fighting Sail. Click: https://t.co/ieKF8BZEgw #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory #18thcentury #Napoleonic

1808: Loss of the frigate HMS Crescent, victor of a famous 1793 ship-to-ship duel, shows how even a well-built ship could be was pounded to driftwood by a storm on a lee shore. Heroism was not enough to save her. Click: https://t.co/OLEisFVihf #NavalHistory #Napoleonic #RoyalNavy

Hero or madman? 1831 - in #Belgium's War of Independence from the #Netherlands, a Dutch naval officer, Jan van Speijk, became a national hero by a blowing up the gunboat & crew which he commanded. Click: https://t.co/8OrkIzQz3N #Naval History #MaritimeHistory #19thCentury