HMS Suprise Cutting Hermione | Charles Dixon | 20th Century Size:A3 Landscape Kawahara Keiga was a late

Kawahara Keiga was a late Edo period Japanese painter of plants

These are Thames sailing barges with their masts and sails lowered

the master decided to enter the torturous D'Entrecasteaux Channel between Bruny Island and the Tasmanian mainland

Further north still the River of the West (Fl

her bowsprit shot away

HMS Suprise Cutting Hermione | Charles Dixon | 20th Century Size:A3 Landscape Kawahara Keiga was a lateThe cutting out of the Hermione by HMS Surprise on the night of October 24, 1799, remains one of the most daring naval operations of the Age of Sail. The Hermione, a former British frigate captured in a brutal mutiny in 1797 and delivered to the Spanish at La Guaira, was anchored under heavy guard in the fortified harbor of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. Captain Edward Hamilton of HMS Surprise led a stealthy nighttime boarding assault with around 100 men