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Saturday, 30 December 2023

British 3rd rate HMS Defence at the end of the battle in 1794

Maritime Museum Hamburg, Germany

Richard Brydges Beechey (1808-1895). Oil on canvas. Building ordered on 15 December 1758, launched by Israel Pownoll, Plymouth Dockyard, England on 31 March1763, badly damaged during the Glorious First of June 1794 battle and wrecked on 24 December 1811. 

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