Heart of Oak ⚓️さんのイラストまとめ

"Launch Against the Bismarck", a Swordfish torpedo bomber flies over rough seas after taking off from HMS Ark Royal.
Painting by Robert Taylor.
The Military Gallery, CA (https://t.co/MgvIeqQJT4)

HMS Britannia (1762) passing Mt. Edgcumbe in Plymouth Sound. She participated in the Battle of Cape Spartel, Genoa, Cape St. Vincent and Trafalgar. She was known as Old Ironsides long before USS Constitution.
Painting by John Thomas Serres (1759-1825).
https://t.co/qud0inkF0L

"HMCS Sackville, the Last Corvette"
Painting by John Horton (https://t.co/9KUtKgvy6t)

Nelson's HMS Captain capturing the San Nicolas and the San Josef at the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797.
Painted by Nicholas Pocock
National Maritime Museum

I'm excited to announce that I'm currently working on a mini-documentary about the Battle of Quiberon Bay (1759). Should be appearing on my youtube channel somewhere next week! Stand by, shipmates.
-Heart of Oak-

Fight of HMS Indefatigable, third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade(left), and Droits de l'Homme, 1797, as depicted by Léopold le Guen (1853).

The Battle of Quiberon Bay, 20 November 1759.
Dominic Serres, 1779.
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Greenwich Hospital Collection

#OTD in 1734 John Jervis was born. 1795: Commander of the Mediterranean Fleet blockading Cadiz, 1797: defeated a larger Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent, 1801: First Lord of the Admiralty. Known as a firm disciplinarian, reformer of dockyards and successfully battled corruption

A brilliant video made by @ChrisQF explaining the run-up to, the course and the consequences of the Battle of Quiberon Bay, which occurred #OTD in 1759:
https://t.co/oHtIg3yv42

#OTD in 1759 24 British ships of the line defeated the French (21 of which 6 destroyed and 1 captured) in the Battle of Quiberon Bay. It signalled the rise of the Royal Navy in becoming the world's foremost naval power, and was part of the British Annus Mirabilis of 1759.