H.M. Steam Frigate Gorgon (lying in Hamoaze, Plymouth) | Royal Museums Greenwich

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H.M. Steam Frigate Gorgon (lying in Hamoaze, Plymouth)

This coloured lithograph depicts the wooden paddle sloop ‘Gorgon’, 6 guns, moored in the Hamoaze (Tamar Estuary), her sails limp and thin smoke wafting from her funnel. A fully laden rowing boat makes it way out to her in the foreground.

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Object Details

ID:	PAI2044
Type:	Print
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Brierly, Oswald Walters; Fry, Edmund Day & Haghe
Vessels:	Gorgon (1837)
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Sheet: 355 x 538 mm; Image: 267 x 408 mm
Parts:	Album of Prints of 19th century ships, belonging to Lt Henry Chamberlain RN (Album) H.M. Brig Pilot (Print) (PAI2041) H.M. Brig Serpent (Commander R L Warren) dismasted, whilst lying at Anchor at Spithead by a Tremendous Hurricane on Tuesday the 29th of Nov 1836 (Print) (PAI2042) H.M.S. Howe. Bearing the Flag of Sir Francis Mason, KCB, cruizing off Malta (Print) (PAI2043) H.M. Steam Frigate Gorgon (lying in Hamoaze, Plymouth) (Print) (PAI2044) H.M.S. Excellent. To Capt Sir Thomas Hastings... and officers... This Print... is dedicated... (Print) (PAI2045) H.M.S. Impregnable In a Gale of Wind, Off the Island Sardinia Octbr 29 1841 (Print) (PAI2046) H.M.S. Powerful, 84 Guns. To Captn C Napier & the Officers... This Print is... dedicated... (Print) (PAI2047) H.M.S. Pique, To Captain Boxer, this print is... dedicated... (Print) (PAI2048) Review of the Fleet at Spithead by Her Majesty, Aug 11, 1853 Commencement of the action (Print) (PAI2049) To the Secretary and members of the Royal Cork Yacht Club, This Print of the cutter Yacht Cygnet (W Smith, Esq) is...dedicated... (Print) (PAI2050) Schooner Yacht Dolphin. G H Ackers, Esq winning the Queen's Plate at Cowes, August 17th 1839 (Print) (PAI2051) The British Queen Steam Ship... leaving Spithead for New York 12th July 1839 (Print) (PAI2052) Position of H.M. Steam Vessel Spitfire, (fitted with Morgan's Paddle Wheels) in the hurricane of the 3rd September 1835, whilst steaming out of Carlisle Bay, Barbados (Print) (PAI2053)

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