Launch of a 4th-rate on the river Orwell
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Launch of a 4th-rate on the river Orwell
This is believed to be a picture of the first three naval vessels built by John Barnard the Younger for the Navy Board. It is a composite in both time and subject and is thought to show the 'Hampshire', 50 guns, on the stocks, the 'Biddeford', 20 guns, being towed downstream and, in the left foreground, the 'Grenado', a bomb-vessel. The location is the River Orwell and the artist was positioned in the immediate vicinity of the Frensham Tower several miles downstream of Ipswich, immediately identifiable in the middle distance.
John Cleveley, the Elder
- Image reference: BHC1044
- National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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