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"Blue at the Mizzen"
Surprise (28) off Cap Pilar, north-west of Cape Horn
©️Geoff Hunt
Bellerophon (74) making sail out of Torbay with the defeated Emperor Napoleon aboard, 26th July 1815
©️Thomas Luny
"Enemy Coast"
H.M.S. Hotspur reconnoitring Brest during the Peace of Amiens, 1803
Hornblower series
©️Geoff Hunt
"Valiant (74) shown alongside her prize, the U.S. 20-gun letter-of-marque Porcupine in June 1813."
©️The Mariners Museum
"The Trafalgar Storm"
This painting shows Mars (74) standing by the dismasted Royal Sovereign (100) Admiral Collingwood's flagship. Mars had been towing Royal Sovereign for two days up until just before the scene depicted in this painting,
©️Geoff Hunt
Constitution (44) vs Java (38)
©️Patrick O’Brien (no not that one)
"The Hundred Days"
Commodore Aubrey, wearing his broad pennant in Surprise, taking his squadron from Gibraltar down the North African coast. The frigates cleared for action, with battle lanterns lit along their gundecks.
©️ Geoff Hunt
74 Gun Ship and other naval vessels in the Carrack Roads circa 1812.
©️ Geoffrey Huband