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Monday, May 02, 2016


2 comments:

VV said...

Is that an early J.M.W. Turner?

CyberKitten said...

Haven't found the artist (yet) but I've found out about the ship itself....

HMS Shannon was a 38-gun Leda-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1806 and served in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. She won a noteworthy naval victory on 1 June 1813, during the latter conflict, when she captured the American Navy's USS Chesapeake in a singularly bloody battle.