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The Dutch fleet at anchor in the Helder, 12 May 1665. In the background, there is a port-broadside view of the Dutch fleet lying at anchor, which seems to lie facing the wind. In the foreground is a stern view of a boeier yacht. The work is inscribed wit
1665
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The day before the battle of Lowestoft, 2-12 June 1665. The Dutch fleet is shown with the wind and the sun coming from the left hand side of the drawing. In the centre foreground is a starboard bow view of the ‘Eendract’ (den baron van wassena
1665
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The Four Days' Battle: the fleets engaged on the second day, 2-12 June 1666. One of a group of drawings of the Four Day’s battle at which van de Velde the Elder was present in a galjoot put at his disposal by de Ruyter who commanded the Dutch f
1666
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Dutch attack on the Medway: the 'Royal Charles' carried into Dutch Waters, 12 June 1667. In June 1667 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, 1665-67, the Dutch carried out a daring raid up the River Medway. They captured the 'Royal Charles'
1667
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French under Duquesne defeat of Allied Dutch and Spanish fleet. De Ruyter receives his first and last wound from which he died on the 29th Agousta 12 April 1676. Signed by artist/engraver in plate.
1676
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'Namur' (1756). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Namure' (1756), a 90-gun First Rate three decker. Signed and attested by John Clevland [Secretary to the Admiralty].
12 July 1750
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The Basso Relievos on the Frize of the Temple of the Winds. Print
12 Apr 1751
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The Basso Relievos on the Frize of the Temple of the Winds. Print
12 Apr 1751
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Richmond (1757). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck plan and orlop deck with fore & aft platforms for Richmond (1757), a 32-gun, Fifth Rate Frigate. NMM, Progress Book, volume 2, folio 332 shtates that 'Richmond' (1757) arrived at Dept
12 February 1771
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A New Method of Macarony Making, as practised at Boston. This print shows the British perspective on events in America. It condemns the violent defiance of law and order, such as the tarring and feathering of John Malcolm, the Commissioner of Customs at B
12 October 1774
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A plan of the operations of the King's army under the command of General Sr William Howe KB in New York and east New Jersey,against the American forces commanded by General Washington, from the 12th of October to the 28th of November 1776. Wherein is
1777
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Ganges (1782). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for Ganges (1782), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as agreed by the 'General Court of the the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the E
12 July 1779
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The distressed situation of the Quebec and the Surveillante... 6th October 1779. Hand-coloured.
12 Dec 1780
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'Prothee' (1780). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board decoration and name, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Prothee' (1780), a captured French Third Rate, as fitted
12 June 1781
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The American Rattlesnake (caricature). Hand-coloured.
12 Apr 1782
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The Battle of the Saints, 12 April 1782. During 1782 the chief aspiration of the French in the West Indies was to capture Jamaica. Before de Grasse could get close however, he was crushed by the British Admiral Rodney’s fleet. The French sailed from
1782
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The Battle of the Saints, 12 April 1782. The chief aspiration of the French in the West Indies in 1782, at the end of the War of American Independence, was the capture of Jamaica. Sailing from Fort Royal, Martinique, their fleet under the Comte de Grasse
1782
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The Battle of The Saints, 12 April 1782: End of the Action. The Saints are a group of small islets in the West Indies between Guadeloupe and Dominica. They gave their name to the final sea battle of the War of American Independence, 1775-83, which was fou
1782
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The Battle of the Saints, 12 April 1782: surrender of the 'Ville de Paris'. The Saints are a group of small islets in the West Indies between Guadeloupe and Dominica. They gave their name to the final sea battle of the War of American Independen
1783
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HMS 'Mediator' engaging French and American vessels, 11-12 December 1782. On the night of 11–12 December 1782, the British ship ‘Mediator’, commanded by Captain the Honourable James Luttrell, was waiting off Ferrol to intercept
1783
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HMS Mediator in action, 12 December 1782. 'HMS ''Mediator'' in action, 12 December 1782'
1798
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Steady (1782). SCale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail and longitudinal half-breadth for Steady, a purchased merchantman, as taken off and fitted at Deptford Dockyard as a 10-gun Armed Transport. The plan also includes a
12 April 1785
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A View of Dover Town and Castle. Print
12 Jun 1785
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A View of Margate Pier and the Two Sisters. Print
12 Aug 1785
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Arrival of Their Sicilian Majesties at Naples, 12 October 1785. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies comprised Naples and the island of Sicily. Under King Ferdinand IV and Queen Maria-Carolina it proved a valuable foothold for British Mediterranean operations
1787
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Timber carriage (circa 1786). Scale: 1:12. Plan showing the sections through the axles, the side elevation, and a plan view for a carriage to transport timber. The plan also includes the reference relating to the various components, the materials to be
12 August 1786
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Trial (1790). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth, midship section, and a plan and section through the centreboard casing, proposed and approved for building Trial (
12 May 1789
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Tartar (1757). Scale 1:48. Plan showing sheer lines and only one water line for Tartar (1757), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigate, as being altered during repairs at Chatham by Mr Nicholson's Yard. The decks were raised, as shown by the ticked red lines. A
12th November 1790
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Galic Perfidy, or the National Troops Attachment to their General after their Defeat at Tournay (caricature). Hand-coloured.
12 May 1792
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A Topographical Map of the Northn Part of New York Island, Exhibiting the Plan of Fort Washington, now Fort Knyphausen showing the several attacks of the Royal Army. Engraved for Stedman's History of the American War. Print
12 Apr 1793
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Plan of the Attack of the Forts Clinton & Montgomery upon Hudsons River which were stormed by his Majesty's Forces under the Command of Sir Henry Clinton K B on the 6th Octr. 1777. Technique includes etching.
12 Apr 1793
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Espiegle (captured 1793). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, shern bouard outline with decoration detail, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal for the Espiegle (captured 1793), a captured French brig-sloop, as taken off p
12 February 1794
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A Perspective View of the City of Naples. Hand-coloured.
12 May 1794
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A View of Amsterdam taken from the Old Rampart. Hand-coloured.
12 May 1794
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A View of the Great Arsenal at Venice, which has two Gates, one for the Workmen to enter at, the other for the Ships. Hand-coloured.
12 May 1794
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Commodore Anson in the Centurion with a crew of 227, 30 of which were boys, on the 20th of June 1743 about two in the afternoon attacks and in less than half an hour obliges to strike and surrender the rich Acupulco ship Nuestra Senora de Capodongo comman
12 May 1794
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Evening, or Sun setting. Le Soir, ou Soleil couchant. Plate No.100.
12 May 1794
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Poll and my Partner Joe (caricature). Text in English below image.
12 May 1794
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Poor Tom Bowling (caricature). Text in English below image. Plate No. 274.
12 May 1794
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The Greenwich Pensioner (caricature). Bears no: 262. This image was printed above the text of Charles Dibdin's song 'The Greenwich Pensioner' [?trimmed off this copy - to check]. Two Pensioners are seated at a table outside the door or what
12 May 1794
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The Nottingham Captain Saumarez takes the Mars. In June 1746 the French sent a powerful force to re-take Louisbourg and capture Nova Scotia. A long stormy journey from Brest and disease defeated them and the third surviving commanding officer, de la Jonqu
12 May 1794
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The Resolution Excise Cutter. Hand-coloured.; Technique includes roulette work.
12 May 1794
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To the Rt. Honble. the Earl of Chesterfield, & the Rt. Honble Lord Walsingham. - Postmasters General, This Plate representing the Gallant Action between his Majesty's Packet Antelope, & the French Privateer L' Atalante... [2 Dec 1794]. T
12 May 1794
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Tom Tackle relieving an Old Shipmate (caricature). Text in English below image.
12 May 1794
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'America' (1794). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'America' (1794), a captured French Third Rate, prior to fitting as a 74-gun Third Rate,
12 February 1795
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43ft Lighter (1796). Scale: 1:16. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for a 43ft 40 ton Lighter (1796) built for use in Portsmouth Dockyard. Signed Edward Tippet [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Doc
12 March 1796
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Chinese Barges of the Embassy preparing to pass under a Bridge. The Pearl River was the principle thoroughfare into Canton and congestion was common. This engraving presents a view of the river busy with boats of various kind waiting to pass under a bridg
12 April 1796
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'Revenge' (1805). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the framing profile (disposition) for building 'Revenge' (1805), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker at Chatham Dockyard. Signed by John Henslow [Surveyor of the Navy, 1784-1806] and William Rul
12 December 1796
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A story of a little parson and the sailor. (caricature). Technique includes etching.; Plate No.179.; Text in English below image.
12 Apr 1797
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'Vesuvius' (1776) bomb vessel. Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck with mortar beds, and lower deck for 'Vesuvius' (1776), a bomb vessel, as fitted with the alterations proposed by Colonel Congreve. Signed by
12 May 1797
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'Vesuvius' (1776) bomb vesssel. Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the section through the foreside of the after motar bed, and a section through the afterside of the foremost mortar bed for 'Vesuvius' (1776), a bomb vessel, as fitted to the
12 May 1797
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The Noble Admiral Lord Viscount Duncan. Who so Bravely Beat the Dutch, on the 11th, of October 1797. Technique includes etching.
12 Feb 1798
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Eugenia (captured 1797). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline and some decoration detail, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and long longitudinal half-breadth for Eugenia (captured 1797), a captured French privat
12 March 1798
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Eugenie (captured 1797). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline and some decoration detail, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and long longitudinal half-breadth for Eugenia (captured 1797), a captured French privat
12 March 1798
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Eugenie (captured 1797). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the upper deck and lower deck with platforms for Eugenia (captured 1797), a captured French privateer, as fitted at Plymouth as a 16-gun brig sloop. Signed by John Marshall [Master Shipwright, Plymouth
12 March 1798
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William (purchased 1798); Selby (purchased 1798). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing a part inboard profile, upper deck, and fore & aft platforms for William (1798) and Selby (1798), both purchased merchantmen converted to 20-gun Ship Sloops. A copy of this p
Circa April 1798
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Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson K B. Print
12 May 1798
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Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson K.B. Print
12 May 1798
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Isles St Marcou Lieut Chas Price, Commandant... 15 Miles from La Hogue... attacked by the French on the 7th May 1798... but obliged them to retreat. Print
12 Jun 1798
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Attack of St Marcou (Extracts from Lieut Price's Letter dated St Marcou May 7 1798) from the London Gazette May 12. The Stationers - Almanack for 1799. Text in English below title.
12 Oct 1798
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Ireland (off) 12 Oct 1798. The Anson (Capt Durham) in action with five French frigates under the command of Commodore Bompart. Warren's Action. original art: drawing
1798
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Sir John Warren's action off Ireland, the Anson (Capt Durham) engaging five French frigates under Commodore Bompart, Oct 12, 1798. original art: drawing
1798
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Warren's Action - Ireland (off) 12 Oct 1798. The Anson (Capt Durham) engaging five French frigates under the command of Commodore Bompart. original art: drawing
1798
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Admiral Sr Horatio Nelson K B giving the command of his ship the Vanguard to Captn Berry. After having received a wound on the Head in the Glorious Engagement with the French, - on the coast of Egypt. Plate 425.
12 Nov 1798
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Eugenie (captured 1797). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the upper deck and fore & aft platforms for Eugenia (captured 1797), a captured French privateer, as taken off at Plymouth prior to conversion to a 16-gun brig sloop. Signed by John Marshall [Master
12 December 1798
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The Right Honourable Lord Hugh Seymour, Vice Admiral of the Blue. Print
12 Apr 1799
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This Portrait of Captain George Westcott, who fell on board his Majesty's Ship the Majestic of 74 guns, having bravely defended the Honor of the British Flag in the ever memorable Victory of the Nile, on the 1st August 1798; is respectfully Inscribed
12 May 1799
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Archibald Dalzel Esqr. Governor of Cape Coast Castle & its dependencies, on the coast of Africa. A print depicting Archibald Dalzel, the governor or Cape Coast Castle. Archibald Dalzel (1740–circa 1811) was born in Kirkliston in Scotland. He s
12 August 1799
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To Captain Sir H.B. Neale Bart, of His Majesty's Ship St Fiorenzo the Honble Captain Herbert of the Amelia... This Print representing their Engagement with Three French Frigates & a Gun Vessel aided by a Battery on the Shore, close in with Bellei
12 Feb 1801
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A View of the First Bridge at Paddington, and the Accommodation Barge going down the Grand Junction Canal to Uxbridge. Plate 166. Technique includes etching.
12 Sep 1801
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William Money Esqr. A Director of the Honorable United East India Company And Elder Brother of the Corporation of Trinity House. Print. William Money (died 1796) was Captain of several East Indiamen and later a Director of the East India Company. Like man
12 Sep 1801
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View of the Wet Docks from Blackwall. Print entitled 'View of the Wet Docks from Blackwall'. This appears to be a view of the West India Docks completed in 1802. The image is probably from a series but which one remains to be clarified.
12 January 1803
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'Ant' (1798). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Ant' (1798), a schooner-rigged tender. It is not known if the 'Ant' w
12 March 1803
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'Swift' (1794). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard profile, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Swift' (1794), a forty-nine foot schooner, ex-Virginia pilot boat. Signed by H
12 March 1803
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A new chart shewing the navigation through the Straits of Sunda to Batavia. Drawn from the latest authorities by William Heather May 12th1803. Single sheet. Engr. Medium: Backed with blue paper. Scale: [ca. 1:350 000]. Cartographic Note: Graduated for lat
1803
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Comfort in a hurricane (caricature). Page 298.; Text in English below title.
12 May 1803
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'Ant' (1798). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the upper deck and quarter deck for 'Ant' (1798), a schooner-rigged tender. It is not known if the 'Ant' was a purchased merchant vessel, or an ex-French vessel. The date and place i
circa August 1803
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A Sailors life in a calm (caricature). Page 323.; Text in English below title.
12 Dec 1803
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'Etna' [Aetna] (1804). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the inboard profile, section at forward bomb bed, upper deck, fore and aft platforms for the 'Etna' [Aetna] (1804). The ship was a bomb vessel and these plans display how she was fitt
12 March 1804
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To The Rt Honble George Lord Keith... This Plate representing the Commencement of the Action of the Adml Mitchell Cutter... with a French Gun-brig and Six Armed Sloops and Schooners, near Boulogne, Oct 31 1803 Is... Inscribed by... R Livesay. Hand-coloure
12 Mar 1804
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To The Rt Honble George Lord Keith... This Plate representing the Conclusion of the Action of the Adml Mitchell Cutter... with a French Gun-Brig and Six Armed Sloops and Schooners, near Boulogne, Octr 31 1803 Is... Inscribed by... R Livesay. Print
12 Mar 1804
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The 'Cambrian' of Boston, William Marshall Master, beating off a french cutter privateer on 23 October 1804. Print depicting the brig 'Cambrian' of Boston, William Marshall, Master, beating off a french cutter privateer on 23 October 1
12 February 1805
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'Cumberland' (1807); 'Venerable' (1807). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the framing profile (disposition) for 'Cumberland' (1807) and 'Venerable' (1808), both 74-gun Third Rate, two-deckers building at Northfleet by Mr T
12 June 1805
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'Cumberland' (1807); 'Venerable' (1808). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with modified gun ports, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Cumberland' (1807), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker. It is likely that
12 June 1805
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'Magnificent' (1806); 'Valiant' (1807); 'Elizabeth' (1807); 'Cumberland' (1807); 'Venerable' (1808). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for building 'M
12 June 1805
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View of St John's Harbour, Antigua; the fleet at anchor and the 'Curieux' brig making sail with dispatches for England [12 June 1805]. The last, but seventh in order of events, in series of ten drawings (PAF5871–PAF5874, PAF5876, PAF5
1810
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Admiral Nelson falling into the Arms of Victory. Picture transfer-printed on glass depicting Nelson on the deck of 'Victory', supported by a kneeling figure representing Victory (left) with helmet and shield. Hope holds his hand. A cherub on th
12 Dec 1805
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Ever Memorable Battle off Cape Trafalgar: 21 October 1805. Hand-coloured.; Plate number 119.
12 Dec 1805
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Ever Memorable Battle off Cape Trafalgar: 21 October 1805. Technique includes etching.; Hand-coloured.; Stored in mount with PAF4723.; Text in English below image.
12 Dec 1805
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Sir Richd. J Strachan's Action with the French off Rochefort: Novr. 2. 1805 in which four French ships were taken. Print
12 Dec 1805
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The Death & Victory of Lord Nelson. Text in English below image.
12 Dec 1805
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The death and Victory of Lord Nelson. Picture transfer-printed on glass depicting the dying Nelson lying on the deck of a ship. He is supported by Britannia to the right pointing heavenwards, her shield and spear lie beside her. Neptune stands on the left
12 December 1805
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Remains of Lord Viscount Nelson, laying in state in the Painted Chamber, at Greenwich Hospital. Nelson’s coffin lies in the Painted Hall at Greenwich Hospital surrounded by trophies and with official mourners on either side. Print of the lying in st
12 Feb 1806
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The Total Defeat of the French Squadron in the Bay of the Town of St Domingue, Feb 6 1806 by a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships Commanded by Sir J T Duckworth. Technique includes etching.; Hand-coloured.
12 Apr 1806
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Emblematical Monument erected in the Guildhall of the City of Norwich for the preservation of the Sword presented by the late Lord Viscount Nelson. The Arms are the same which his Lordship bore when the Sword was presented. Technique includes aquatint.
12 May 1806
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William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk. Print. A commemoration of Northesk's role as third in command at the Battle of Trafalgar, in the 'Britannia'. Although the ship suffered heavy casualties and did good rescue work in the post-Trafalgar
12 May 1806
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'Belleisle' at the close of the Action off Trafalgar, 21 October 1805. Inscribed: “Situation of His Majesty's Ship BELLISLE [sic], Wm Hargood Esqr Captain, with the NAIAD Frigate, Captain Thos Dundas, taking her in Tow at the close of
12 Aug 1806
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'Belleisle' at the close of the Action off Trafalgar, 21 October 1805. Inscribed: “Situation of His Majesty's Ship BELLISLE [sic], Wm Hargood Esqr Captain, with the NAIAD Frigate, Captain Thos Dundas, taking her in Tow at the close of
12 Aug 1806
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'Belleisle' towed to Gibraltar, 24 October 1805. Inscribed: “His Majesty’s Ship BELLISLE [sic], Wm Hargood Esqr Captain, in Tow of the NAIAD Frigate Captain Thos Dundas, near Gibraltar on the Morning 24th October 1805 having narrowly
12 Aug 1806
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'Invincible' (1808); 'Chatham' (1812). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the midship section for 'Invincible' (1808), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker. The plan illustrates the method of securing the beams to the sides in lieu of wood
12 February 1807
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