H.M. Brig Frolic 16 guns.. slaver driven on shore, coast of Brazil

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H.M. Brig Frolic 16 guns.. slaver driven on shore, coast of Brazil

Hand-coloured lithograph depicting H.M. brig Frolic driven onshore at Brazil, while another ship is wrecked on rocks nearby (right hand side of the picture), an incident which may have taken place in 1853 (Mariner's Mirror. Vol. 1, 1911, p.159). This ship was the third Frolic in the Royal, and was a 16-gun 511 ton sloop launched in 1842 and sold 1864.

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Object Details

ID:	PAF8097
Collection:	Fine art
Type:	Print
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Ackermann, Rudolph; Hinton, A. Vernon, H. John Foster, William Day & Haghe
Places:	Unlinked place
Vessels:	Frolic (1842)
Date made:	1842
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Sheet: 274 mm x 365 mm; Image: 196 mm x 276 mm; Mount: 402 mm x 555 mm