File:The Battle of Frigate Bay, 26 January 1782 RMG BHC0436.tiff
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Battle of Saint Kitts | ||||||||||||
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Battle of Saint Kitts label QS:Lit,"battaglia di Saint Kitts"
label QS:Lja,"セントキッツの海戦"
label QS:Lfr,"bataille de Saint-Christophe"
label QS:Lnb,"Slaget ved St Kitts"
label QS:Lru,"Сражение у острова Сент-Китс"
label QS:Lde,"Seeschlacht von St. Kitts"
label QS:Les,"Batalla de Saint Kitts"
label QS:Len,"Battle of Saint Kitts"
label QS:Leo,"Batalo de Sankta Kito"
label QS:Lcs,"bitva u Saint Kitts" |
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Part of | American Revolutionary War | |||||||||||
Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Description |
English: The Battle of Frigate Bay, 26 January 1782 The Battle of Frigate Bay was an action during the American Revolutionary War. Also known as the battle of St Kitts, it took place between a British fleet under Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood and a larger and more superior French fleet under the Comte de Grasse. The French attacked the British islands of St Kitts and Nevis in January 1782. Despite Hood’s daring actions he was unable to save the island from surrendering to the French. Pocock’s account was painted two years after the action. On the left is one of the anchored British fleet, the ‘Alfred’. The configuration of other anchored ships shows an ‘L’ formation with Hood’s flagship, the 'Barfleur', at the apex. In the centre foreground a French two-decker has broken off from the action and is astern of another which is in action but is coming to the end of the English line. On the right are two more French ships and beyond them in the background another is about to join the action. There is a small engraving after Pocock showing the action as seen from St Kitts, as well as a pair of contemporary drawings by an unknown artist, showing a bird’s eye view of Hood displacing the French to occupy their anchorage temporarily. It is signed and dated ‘N Pocock 1784’. |
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Date |
1784 date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Dimensions | Painting: 1205 mm x 2159 mm; Frame: 1495 mm x 2450 mm x 135 mm | |||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q7374509 |
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Accession number |
BHC0436 |
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Notes | Signed and dated 1784. | |||||||||||
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Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/11928 | |||||||||||
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Identifier InfoField | Greenwich Hospital Collection number: GH23 Loan File Number: Y2000.023 file number: 4G10.031 id number: BHC0436 |
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Collection InfoField | Oil paintings |
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