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water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
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water transport: fighting vessel: corvette (France)
water transport: service vessel: gig, ship's
water transport: unknown function: sloop (HMS)
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This view of H.M.S. Active Capt Sir J.A. Gordon K.C.B. working out of Portsmouth Harbour against Wind and Tide by means of the Machinery invented by Lieutenant: James Burton... etc (Drawing)
Siege of Oporto. To be pelted here and shell'd there & round & Grape whizzin' atwixt your Masts (Print)
HMS 'Illustrious' (74) and two other vessels, one jury rigged (Drawing)
Study of 'Denmark' (74) at Spithead, 1814 (Drawing)
Study of hay barns at Loudwater, 1816 (Drawing)
A naval frigate in a storm (Drawing)
A naval frigate at sea (Drawing)
A two deck ship wrecked on a beach (Drawing)
Page of slight sketches of fighting vessels, including 'L'Espoir' and 'Al-de-Fonso', 1813 and 1814 (Drawing)
Studies of HMS 'Vernon', Spithead October 22nd 1832,' with sails unbent!' (Drawing)
Study of a fore royal stay (Drawing)
Two sketches of sailing craft (Drawing)
A view from Southsea looking west towards the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour (Drawing)
The Quebec Tavern, entrance to Portsmouth Harbour (Drawing)
Sketch of HMS 'Leander' in Portsmouth harbour after the bombardment of Algiers (Drawing)
The Round Tower at Portsmouth, during building work in 1815 (Drawing)
Study of a dog wearing collar and of tree branches (Drawing)
Two sketches of sailing vessels, two of sails furled, and one of a plant (Drawing)
Five studies of sails, three of them with men on the yards, and a drawing of a male head, possibly Schetky (Drawing)
The hull and stern of the 'Larkins', East Indiaman, 1843 (Drawing)
Shipping in Leith Roads, 1795 (Drawing)
Album of marine sketches by John Christian Schetky, mainly Portsmouth, 1795-1863 (Album)
A Series of Four Views... No. 2... the American Frigate Chesapeake, Crippled and thrown into utter disorder by the two first broadsides fired from HMS Shannon (Print)
A Leith smack running swin? with all sail set (Print)
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