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USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon exchange broadsides during their 15-minute battle in June 1813
©️Robin Brook
Foudroyant (80) and Queen Charlotte (100) in close company, arriving at Palermo 1800.
©️John Christian
Belvidera (36) Captain Richard Byron, under pursuit by Commodore Rodger’s U.S. Squadron, President (44), United States (44), Hornet (20), Congress(26) and Argus(16), 23rd June 1812,
©️Stuart Bolton
"The Wooden Walls of England"
At the front of the British Fleet Royal George (74). Sailing north from the West Indies in 1781.
©️ Patrick O'Brien
This is the mast head from L'Orient (118) the French flagship at the Battle Of Nile 1798.
She blew up after fire reached both power magazines, catapulting debris across the surrounding ships.
Pine mast with iron fittings, signal halyard sleeve and brass lighting conductor.
"74 Gun Ship & Naval Cutter in the Carrack Roads circa 1812"
©️ Geoffrey Huband RSMA
"The cutting out of ex HMS Hermione, 24 October 1799"
The capture of the ‘Hermione’ Spanish frigate of 44 guns, 392 men by Captain E. Hamilton of His Majesty’s ship ‘Surprise’ of 24 guns’.
Artist - Nicholas Pocock
©️ National Maritime Museum
Victory (104) at sea possibly with Captain Blackwood leaving to return to his ship following a meeting with Nelson.
©️E de Martino
"H.M.S. Cornwall"
Arist- William Lionel Wyllie
©️National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection
Destruction of the French ship Achille at the end of the Battle of Trafalgar on 21st October 1805.
©️ Richard Brydges Beechey