A view of three British vessels approaching Sagone Bay to attack a French squadron. The ‘Pomone’ is on the right of the three British vessels in the foreground. In the second plate, she is shown still on the right of the picture, but now in the lead. Four rows of reef points on the mizzen topsails are incorrect. The ‘Unité’ is probably the middle vessel and the ‘Scout’ that on the left. Three French vessels can be seen within the bay, firing their guns. The landscape is mountainous and fertile. Coloured aquatint. Plate 1, open letter proof.
Captain Barrie writing from Corsica to Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, then the C. in C. in the Mediterranean, says ‘The Pomone, from being enabled to choose her station, was of course exposed to the brunt of the action.’ (John Marshall, ‘Royal Naval Biography’, vol. II part 2 – known as Vol. 4 – p.725).