The Situation of...the Mermaid on the 10th Octr 1795...Coast of Grenada, run aground in Chase of the French Corvette Brutus...

One of three impressions depicting HMS Mermaid (1784) and Brutus (1793), the latter depicted on the left, on the 10th October 1795 on the Coast of Grenada. Captain Henry Warre commanded the Mermaid, and the Brutus was later renamed the Warre after the event depicted, the Mermaid having aimed to prevent the Brutus from offloading its cargo of ammunition to the enemy and captured the ship (but her crew and 120 troops escaped onto land before they could be captured) on the 10th October 1795.

Object Details

ID: PAI5713
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Faden, William; Pocock, Nicholas Pollard, Robert
Vessels: Brutus (1793); Mermaid (1784)
Date made: 12 Feb 1798
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 450 x 693 mm; Plate: 440 x 688 mm