Print. The original drawing for this is PAE9943. The print is from Moses's 'Marine Sketchbook', 1824 (re-issued in 1837). Although the exact incident has no yet been identified, it is likely that the frigate 'Tweed' was in this case bringing in a cargo of silver from Mexico for the Bank of England which imported a great deal from there in the 19th century. It was often carried in warships returning from the Americas for security and their officers and crews received a bounty for doing it. The Museum has an album of drawings by Edward Gennys Fanshawe who, at the end of his Pacific commission as captain of the 'Juno', also brought back a similar cargo from the Mexican Pacific coast in 1851. [PvdM 8/23]