HMS Eurydice. This fine Frigate used as a Training ship for young seamen of the Royal Navy, is approaching Spithead, on Sunday, March 24th 1878.... was suddenly upset by a violent blast of wind...., and sank with 328 men, only two men being saved alive - Benjamin Cuddeford, A B, of Plymouth, and Sydney Fletcher, First Class Boy of Bristol
Hand-coloured.
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Object Details
ID: | PAF8100 |
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Collection: | Fine art |
Type: | |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | H. M. Currie & Son |
Vessels: | Eurydice (1843) |
Date made: | 1861; 24 Mar 1878 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Sheet: 275 x 396 mm; Mount: 404 mm x 558 mm |