Illustrations of HM late ship Alceste and 4 smaller vessels

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Illustrations of HM late ship Alceste and 4 smaller vessels

This drawing of 'Alceste' and four smaller vessels forms part of a sketchbook, from which another image depicts the wreck of the 'Alceste' being burnt by Malays off Pulo Leat, an island in the Straits of Gaspar on 18 February, 1817. She was captured from the French as 'Minerve' off Rochefort. Bound with PAF8528, PAF8530-PAF8568.

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Object Details

ID:	PAF8529
Type:	Drawing
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Browne, Charles W.
Vessels:	Minerve (1805)
Date made:	1806
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	241 mm x 196 mm
Parts:	Album of sketches from Memory made in Jan and Feb 1818 by C W Browne, RN of His Majesty's late ships, Alceste and Julia (Album) Illustrations of HM late ship Alceste and 4 smaller vessels (Drawing) (PAF8529) Aqueduct. Rio Janeiro (Drawing) (PAF8530) View of river and trees, Rio Janeiro (Drawing) (PAF8531) Table Mountain. Cape of Good Hope (Drawing) (PAF8532) Java-Head (Drawing) (PAF8533) Scenery in the Indian Islands (Drawing) (PAF8534) Trees. Java. 1. Cocoa Tree, 2. Plantain (Drawing) (PAF8535) Javanese scenery with local craft (Drawing) (PAF8536) Group of trees.... Java. 1. Cocoa Tree, 2. Palm Tree, 3. Plantain (Drawing) (PAF8537) Entrance to Murray's Sound, Korea (Drawing) (PAF8538) Sulphur Island (Drawing) (PAF8539) H.M.S. Lyra Captn Basil Hall (Drawing) (PAF8540) Herbert Isle & the Entrance to Port Melville, Lieuchoo (Drawing) (PAF8541) Distant view of Egoosehoond, a remarkable hill in Lieuchoo (Drawing) (PAF8542) Dutch Folly, a fort in the Tigris, near Canton (Drawing) (PAF8543) French Folly, a Fort in the Tigris, near Canton (Drawing) (PAF8544) Chinese Merchantman. View of Canton (Drawing) (PAF8545) Chinese War junk (Drawing) (PAF8546) Pulo Leat, an Island in the Straits of Gaspar: HMS Alceste on fire (Drawing) (PAF8547) Pulo Leat (Drawing) (PAF8548) H.M.S. Alceste on fire. Pulo Leat (Drawing) (PAF8549) Two of the look-out rocks. Pulo Leat (Drawing) (PAF8550) C W B's Cot Pulo Leat (Drawing) (PAF8551) C W B's Cot Pulo Leat and Cooking Place (Drawing) (PAF8552) Arno's Vale (Mr Balcomb's) St Helena (Drawing) (PAF8553) Green Mountain House (Peak 3500 feet) Ascension Island (Drawing) (PAF8554) H.M. late sloop Julian off Tristan da Cunha (Drawing) (PAF8555) Wreck of HMS Julia at Tristan da Cunha South Atlantic (Drawing) (PAF8556) Memorial of the Crew lost in HMS Julia at Tristan da Cunha (Drawing) (PAF8557) Artillery Huts at Tristan da Cunha (Drawing) (PAF8558) Tristan da Cunha South Atlantic (Drawing) (PAF8559) Browne's Cove, Port Melville, Lieuchoo (Oouting) (Drawing) (PAF8560) The Cap, a small Island in the Straits of Sunda (Drawing) (PAF8561) The Button, Str of Java (Drawing) (PAF8562) HMS Hyperion Capt Cunby. Capture of the Rattlesnake after a chase of 48 hours (Drawing) (PAF8563) HMS Queen Charlotte 120 Guns (Drawing) (PAF8564) Ship in a heavy gale (Drawing) (PAF8565) Sketch of fighting vessels at sea (Drawing) (PAF8566) Tacking. A stiff breeze on or by the Wind (Drawing) (PAF8567) A View of the Harbour of Brest Taken on board the Hyperion while Reconnoitering that Harbour on the 2nd June 1815 (Drawing) (PAF8568)