His Majesty's Frigate the Diamond...off Cape La Heve...to Cut out a French lugger named Le Vengeur...18 April 1796...was boarded...but the cable cut by one of the prisoners...swept...into the River Seine...a desperate action ensued, which...obliged Sir Sydney Smith to surrender...
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Object Details
| ID: | PAI6378 |
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| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Boxer, J.; Serres, John Thomas Jeakes, Joseph Orme, Edward Boxer, J. |
| Vessels: | Diamond (1794); Heve ca.1796 [French navy] |
| Date made: | 1794; 18 Apr 1796 ca.1796 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 455 x 636 mm |