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The ‘Mary Rose’ action, 8-18 December 1669 (Drawing)
A fight in boats with Barbary pirates (Drawing)
An English ship drying sails (Drawing)
A council-of-war on board the 'Delfland' off Buchan Ness, 17-27 August 1665 (Drawing)
The Dutch Fleet getting under way near Hellevoetsluis? October-November 1664 (Drawing)
Ships in a gale (Drawing)
The bow of the 'Royal Sovereign', 1701 (Drawing)
Six fishermen and a boy (Drawing)
An English flagship scudding in a heavy sea (Drawing)
Men jumping into a boat during an action (Drawing)
Portrait of the Burcht van Leiden (Drawing)
A topsail stowed (Drawing)
A group of ten fishing people (Drawing)
Study of a topsail loosed on the cap and men furling a course (Drawing)
Pinks on the shore (Drawing)
The bow of the 'Royal Sovereign', 1701 (Drawing)
Ships wrecked below a castle on a high coast (Drawing)
The battle of the Texel (Kijkduin), 11[OS]/21 August 1673, fifth part (Drawing)
Figure studies, men and women (Drawing)
[Beach and van Ghent’s action, 1670] Van Ghent pursuing six Algerine corsairs near Cape Spartel, 17-27 August 1670 (Drawing)
A ship dismasted in a gale near a high coast (Drawing)
A pink ashore [also figures paddling and others arriving in a horse-drawn cart] (Drawing)
Pinks hauled up on the shore [also figures paddling and others arriving in a horse-drawn cart] (Drawing)
Ships driving ashore on a rocky coast (Drawing)
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