HMS Dido in a hurricane or cyclone, off Raiatea (Society Islands) Pacific, Janry 21st 1856

Pen and wash drawing showing the ‘Dido’ badly caught in a storm, port bow view; sails torn apart; fore mast broken, lying on port side of hull; topsail yard on mizzen mast is split, fragment of topsail (still attached) blowing in the wind; waves crashing on to port side; three bolts of lightning present in sky, left of composition. Preparatory drawing to coloured lithograph in NMM (PAH0870). Effingham J. Kellow was second master aboard the Dido.

Object Details

ID: PAD6164
Collection: Fine art
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Kellow, Effingham J
Vessels: Dido (1836)
Date made: 1836; 21 Jan 1856
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Mount: 143 mm x 222 mm