To the Right Honble the Earl of Northesk.... This print of His Majesty's Ship Britannia leaving Hamoaze with the Lord High Admiral on board.... is respectfully dedicated....

Lithograph print, from a painting by Hornbrook, one of a pair from the Caird Collection. The print shows the Britannia (1820) entering Devonport, and is dedicated to the Earl of Northesk, G.C.B., Rear Admiral of Great Britain and Commander in Chief at Plymouth. The Britannia, broken up in 1825, had been Northesk's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar.

Object Details

ID: PAF7950
Collection: Fine art
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Day, W.; Haghe, Louis Hornbrook, J L S. Saunders & W. Byers Hornbrook, Thomas Lyde Haghe, Louis Day, W.
Places: Unlinked place
Vessels: Britannia (1762)
Date made: 1762
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 345 x 445 mm; Comp.: 235 x 376 mm
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