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Cranston Fine Arts  Naval Art and Artists Age of Sail Ships Anglo-American to HMS Brunswick  HMS Belleisle |
[UP] - Anglo-American - Ariel - Armide - Aurelia - Belle Poule - Bucentaure - Ca Ira - Cannoniere - Challenge - Compas - Crescent Moon - CSS Virginia - Cutty Sark - Duguay Trouin - Flying Cloud - Fougeux - Franklin - Gamo - Glenogil - Golden Hinde - Hercules - HMS Agamemnon - HMS Ajax - HMS Alexander - HMS Amphion - HMS Arethusa - HMS Artemis - HMS Barfleur - HMS Beagle - HMS Belleisle - HMS Birkenhead - HMS Blanche - HMS Boreas - HMS Bounty - HMS Britannia - HMS Brunswick |
| HMS Belleisle Naval Art Prints, Paintings and Drawings |
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The Battle of Trafalgar - Mars Breaks the Line by Anthony Saunders. The Battle of Trafalgar was fought on a calm, almost windless day, on 21st October 1805. Nelsons revolutionary battle plan was to cut apart the larger Franco-Spanish fleet of Vice-Admiral Villeneuve by sailing in two single column divisions directly at right angles into the combined fleet and thus rendering almost half of the leading ships useless until the could turn and join the fight, which in such calm conditions could take hours. The battle raged for five hours in which time not one British ship was lost, however, Nelson would tragically lose his life at the very moment of his triumph, a triumph which rendered the British Navy unchallenged in supremacy for over a century. Here HMS Mars passes between the French ships, firing a murderous hail of gunfire at both ships. Also shown in the painting on the left hand side is the Spanish ship Monarco and the French ship Pluton. |
Crippled but Unconquered: The Belleisle at Trafalgar, October 21st 1805 by W L Wyllie. Published by Cassell and Company in 1915, in historical large book, these colour book plates are fairly rare. |
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