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HMS Dido in a hurricane or cyclone, off Raiatea (Society Islands) Pacific, Janry 21st 1856
Pen and wash drawing showing the ‘Dido’ badly caught in a storm, port bow view; sails torn apart; fore mast broken, lying on port side of hull; topsail yard on mizzen mast is split, fragment of topsail (still attached) blowing in the wind; waves crashing on to port side; three bolts of lightning present in sky, left of composition. Preparatory drawing to coloured lithograph in NMM (PAH0870). Effingham J. Kellow was second master aboard the Dido.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAD6164 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | Drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Kellow, Effingham J |
| Vessels: | Dido (1836) |
| Date made: | 1836; 21 Jan 1856 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Mount: 143 mm x 222 mm |
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