Shipping off a port town and an offshore fort, San Salvador, Brazil
Mounted on page 1 of the Fanshawe West Indies, North American and Borneo scrapbook (ZBA4855). Untitled lithograph showing two views on one sheet. The top one shows a coastal town with shipping: a twin domed church at lower level and possibly a convent higher up indicate a Catholic location. The flags of a small ship on the left suggest it is Spanish. The lower view shows a distinctive circular island fort. This is the the largely 17th-century Fort do Mar (or Fort of Nossa Senhora do Populo e do Sao Marcelo) at San Salvador, Bahia, in Brazil, with the upper drawing being probably another view there. The original sketches would have been made by Edward Fanshawe shortly after 1823, the prints probably after 1854.
His son, Vice -Admiral Edward Gennys Fanshawe, was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the North American and West Indies Station in September 1870, sailing for Halifax, Nova Scotia, with his family, and with his son (later Admiral of the Fleet Sir) Arthur Fanshawe joining him as his flag lieutenant a few months later. The station flagship was the steam ironclad 'Royal Alfred' but the Fanshawes mainly lived at Admiralty House, Halifax, during summer and 'the pretty rural bungalow of Clarence Hill, Bermuda' in the winter (Fanshawe [1904], p. 385). Winter months for Fanshawe included regular cruises round the Caribbean to show the flag, visit British stations and conduct fleet exercises. His 1904 memoir, in which Chapter 15 covers this period, is not specific on the dates he visited places but mentions the following, presumably all winter ports of call: Demerara, Trinidad, St Vincent, Martinique, Barbados, Antigua, Jamaica (every year), and Havana and Matanzas, Cuba. He also visited the USA, taking the flagship to Annapolis one year and meeting President Grant in Washington. With his family he also made short private trips to northern states, including New York and Vermont. In another year, towards autumn since the beauty of 'fall' colours is mentioned, he took the 'Royal Alfred' to Quebec, travelling through the country and visiting Ottawa and Niagara. There were a number of tensions during his period as C-in-C both with the Americans and the French, the latter over fishing issues, which he handled successfully. His commission ended in September 1873 but he was only relieved in January 1874, and reached Portsmouth in the 'Royal Alfred' later that month. [PvdM 2/11]
His son, Vice -Admiral Edward Gennys Fanshawe, was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the North American and West Indies Station in September 1870, sailing for Halifax, Nova Scotia, with his family, and with his son (later Admiral of the Fleet Sir) Arthur Fanshawe joining him as his flag lieutenant a few months later. The station flagship was the steam ironclad 'Royal Alfred' but the Fanshawes mainly lived at Admiralty House, Halifax, during summer and 'the pretty rural bungalow of Clarence Hill, Bermuda' in the winter (Fanshawe [1904], p. 385). Winter months for Fanshawe included regular cruises round the Caribbean to show the flag, visit British stations and conduct fleet exercises. His 1904 memoir, in which Chapter 15 covers this period, is not specific on the dates he visited places but mentions the following, presumably all winter ports of call: Demerara, Trinidad, St Vincent, Martinique, Barbados, Antigua, Jamaica (every year), and Havana and Matanzas, Cuba. He also visited the USA, taking the flagship to Annapolis one year and meeting President Grant in Washington. With his family he also made short private trips to northern states, including New York and Vermont. In another year, towards autumn since the beauty of 'fall' colours is mentioned, he took the 'Royal Alfred' to Quebec, travelling through the country and visiting Ottawa and Niagara. There were a number of tensions during his period as C-in-C both with the Americans and the French, the latter over fishing issues, which he handled successfully. His commission ended in September 1873 but he was only relieved in January 1874, and reached Portsmouth in the 'Royal Alfred' later that month. [PvdM 2/11]