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“A man should witness a battle in a three-decker from the middle deck, for it beggars all description: it bewilders the senses of sight and hearing”

Lewis Roatley, age 20, 2nd Marine Lieutenant aboard Victory at Trafalgar

Camperdown by W.A. Knell
National War Museum of Scotland

Each of the gunport lids on the Swedish warship Vasa (1628) were adorned with a lion’s head that would stare down the enemy when opened for battle

The lids were painted red and the lion head carvings gilded with gold leaf. Artefacts as recovered

In the early 1840s Colonel Charles Pasley successfully cleared the wreck of the Royal George with explosives, which sank intact at Spithead in August 1782

Among the ship’s timbers recovered for salvage were sections of the sternpost & rudder, sketched in Portsmouth Dockyard

It’s fair to say the adornment & embellishment of ornamental carvings on English warships had peaked in the mid/late 17th century, being reduced significantly by Nelson’s era

The French, however, continued flourishing their ships well into the mid-18thC. L’Invincible from 1744

Friends:
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Check out the article on “our” favourite British warship the Invincible (1758) written by yours truly!