Figurehead from HMS 'Blenheim'
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Figurehead from HMS 'Blenheim'
Figurehead of HMS 'Blenheim', a 74-gun third rate warship built at Deptford Dockyard in 1813. The figurehead represents a male bust-length figure in military dress with a sash over the left shoulder and the Garter star on the left breast, wearing a laurel wreath. It sits on a fiddle-head scroll bearing the Spencer-Churchill arms on the sides, as granted to the family in 1733. It may be intended as a portrait of Marlborough, the great general of the reign of Queen Anne and victor of the Battle of Blenheim in 1704, but (the date of the arms apart) the dress is at best late 18th century and probably early 19th.
The ship was used as a quarter vessel at Stangate Creek on the Medway from 1815, placed in harbour service in 1831 and converted to auxiliary screw power in 1837. She served in the China Wars, 1839-1842 and the Baltic campaign of the Crimean War in 1854 before becoming a coastguard vessel and and being broken up in 1865.
Original size: 3048 mm x 1219 mm x 991 mm
- Image reference: L4471
- National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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