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The Prometheus & Melpomene standing into the Gulph of Riga, to meet the boats of the British Squadron, and prizes cut out during the night August 1809. From a drawing by Mr Hood, Midn of the Melpomene
Hand-coloured. Illustration for James Ralfe, 'The Naval Chronology of Great Britain', 3 vols. (London: Whitmore and Fenn, 1820), volume 2, opposite p. 226.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAD5786 |
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| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Havell, Daniel; Hood, Robert Whitcombe, Thomas |
| Places: | Gulf of Riga |
| Vessels: | Prometheus 1807 [HMS]; Melpomene 1794 [HMS] |
| Date made: | 1794; 1807 Aug 1809 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Mount: 154 mm x 217 mm |