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Summary
| British Sailors Boarding a Man of War | |
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| Author |
John Augustus Atkinson; Fry & Sutherland; Edward Orme |
| Title |
British Sailors Boarding a Man of War |
| Description |
English: British Sailors Boarding a Man of War Technique includes etching. The cutting-out raid was a method of attack usually undertaken while the enemy ship was at anchor in the dead of night. The attackers, leaping from their small boats would storm and with luck take the upper deck. This plan relied on surprise and the disadvantages of being heavily outnumbered meant it was not a popular means of assault. The French ‘Bienfaisant’ was the only major ship to be captured as a result of a cutting out raid in July 1758. This print represents the recapture of the British ‘Hermione’ in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, by boats of the ‘Surprise’, two years after her crew had mutinied against the sadistic Captain Pigot, killed him and most of his officers, and handed the ship over to the Spaniards. |
| Date | 4 June 1815 |
| Dimensions | Mount: 248 mm x 358 mm |
| Collection |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
| Accession number |
PU5628 |
| Notes | Box Title: Actions 1799. |
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/109779 |
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| Identifier | Unidentified Prints & Drawings Number: 3 id number: PAD5628 |
| Collection | Fine art |
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| current | 03:49, 2 October 2017 | | 1,280 × 969 (522 KB) | Fæ | Royal Museums Greenwich Fine art (1815), http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/109779 #7631 |
