File:HMS 'Spartan' and French Frigates- Beginning of the Action, Third of May 1810 RMG BHC0594.jpg
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Thomas Whitcombe: HMS 'Spartan' and French Frigates: Beginning of the Action, Third of May 1810
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HMS 'Spartan' and French Frigates: Beginning of the Action, Third of May 1810  |
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English: HMS 'Spartan' and French Frigates: Beginning of the Action, Third of May 1810 This shows the beginning of the action on 3 May 1810, between the British ship ‘Spartan’ and the Neapolitan frigate ‘Cérère’ with her consort, in the Bay of Naples. On 1 May the British ships ‘Spartan’ and ‘Success’ chased a Neapolitan squadron inside the mole at Naples. It consisted of the ‘Cerere’ the ‘Fama’ the ‘Sparvievo’ and the ‘Achille’. Captain Jahleel Brenton, captain of the ‘Spartan’, assuming that the enemy would not come out to fight two British frigates, sent the ‘Success’ off to rendezvous on the 2 May. In fact the Neapolitan squadron did decide to fight having embarked 400 Swiss troops into the ‘Cerere’ and ‘Fama’. So when the ‘Spartan’ approached Naples early on 3 May Brenton saw the enemy squadron sailing out to meet him, supported by seven gunboats. In the two hour action that followed, the ‘Cerere’ and ‘Fama’ both hauled off, the latter badly damaged, and the ‘Sparvieto’ was forced to strike. Captain Brenton, conducted the fight standing on the capstan, was hit on the hip by a piece of grapeshot and badly wounded. His First Lieutenant, George Willes, who took over, was also wounded, as were 20 others, with ten men killed. In the centre of the painting the ‘Spartan’ is shown firing her port broadside into the Neapolitan ships. They are shown on the left, passing ‘Spartan’ and firing at her. They are led by the ‘Cerere’ on the left of the painting followed by the ‘Fama’ and ‘Sparviero’. Beyond and to the right of the ‘Spartan’ the cutter ‘Achille’ is shown firing into her as she brings up the seven gunboats in the right background. Naples can be seen in the distance and provides a backdrop for the action. The painting is signed and dated ‘Thos. Whitcombe 1810’ and is on loan from the Greenwich Hospital Collection |
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| Date | 1810 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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oil on canvas |
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| Dimensions | Frame: 900 mm x 1266 mm x 106 mm;Painting: 635 mm x 990 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||
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BHC0594 |
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| Notes | Signed and dated 1810. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12086 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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