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Image number: RS.10556
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The frigate ‘Pique’
Date
1853
Creator - Organisation
Day & Son, Lithographers
After
H W Hampton , Draftsman
Object type
Library reference
47871
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 255mm
width (print): 140mm
width (print): 140mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Side elevation of the Pique frigate with four details of the vessel’s keel exhibiting levels of damage caused by running aground.
Plate 2 from the book Improvements in naval architecture, by Oliver Lang (Woolwich, 1853).
The plate is inscribed: ‘PIQUE FRIGATE OF 36 GUNS. Showing her state after having been on the Rocks. H.W.Hampton Del. Day & Son, Lithrs. To the Queen.’
According to the accompanying text “the Pique frigate...grounded on the rocks of the Labrador coast, and tore away the outer keels, all fore and aft, in addition to this, cut deeply into five large pieces of the solid bottom, she was got off safe and brought home to England...”
Oliver Lang (1777-1853) was a master shipwright at the Royal Naval Dockyard at Woolwich.
Plate 2 from the book Improvements in naval architecture, by Oliver Lang (Woolwich, 1853).
The plate is inscribed: ‘PIQUE FRIGATE OF 36 GUNS. Showing her state after having been on the Rocks. H.W.Hampton Del. Day & Son, Lithrs. To the Queen.’
According to the accompanying text “the Pique frigate...grounded on the rocks of the Labrador coast, and tore away the outer keels, all fore and aft, in addition to this, cut deeply into five large pieces of the solid bottom, she was got off safe and brought home to England...”
Oliver Lang (1777-1853) was a master shipwright at the Royal Naval Dockyard at Woolwich.
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