Small sketch of Amphion Oct 9th 1847
'Amphion' was initially planned and ordered from Woolwich Dockyard as 'Ambuscade' on 13 May 1828, but was renamed on 31 March 1831. She was laid down on 15 April 1840, but on 18 June, 1844, she was reordered as a screw propelled frigate. She was launched on 14 January 1846, and commissioned on 13 May 1847. This sketch by Robert Thomas Strickland is a broadside, starboard view of 'Amphion', executed on 9 October, 1847. Stored with PAH4442-PAH4453, PAH4455-PAH4521. Volume V of Thomas's sketchbook.