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The Lapwing, under Captain Barton, capturing a French Frigate in the West-Indies
A coloured aquatint depicting the English 28-gun, 6th rate ‘Lapwing’, under the command of a Captain Burton, capturing the French frigate Decius and sinking the brig Valiant. The action took place off Anguilla in the West Indies on 25 November 1796. Gunfire blazes from the Lapwing’s starboard side. The captured ship’s ensign, lowered in defeat, trails in the water at her stern, while the brig sinks in flames, her crew abandoning ship into a jolly boat.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAD5512 |
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| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Fairburn, John; Elmes, William |
| Places: | West Indies |
| Events: | French Revolutionary Wars: Capture of the Décius, 1796 |
| Vessels: | Le Decius (1796); Lapwing (1785) Vaillante (1793) |
| Date made: | 21 August 1797 |
| People: | Captain Barton |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Mount: 168 mm x 219 mm |