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3 July 2018

Trafalgar: Gilding the Gingerbread

Sir Richard Strachan’s Action, November 3rd, 1805 If anything could have marred Britain’s joy at the outcome of the Battle of Trafalgar it was the escape […]
26 June 2018

Trafalgar: The Race for Glory

This story was researched and written by Tony Pawlyn of the Bartlett Library at the Museum for the 2005 commemoration of the Trafalgar Despatch. It is […]
26 June 2018

HMP Walsingham

Watercolour with ink and body colour 46.5cm x 58cm Unsigned Built: London 1795 185 tons Originally built for Captain Couse this Packet had a notable career […]
26 June 2018

HMP Francis Feeling

Watercolour and ink with body colour 45.5cm x 58cm Built: Falmouth  c1807 19063/94  Tons Built for Captain Stephen Bell she was 80ft 8ins in length with […]
26 June 2018

HMP Fox

Watercolour with ink and body colour 44.5cm x 59cm Signed: N.S. Cammillieri This brig of 227 tons, built in New York in 1806, was hired in […]
26 June 2018

HMP Lady Mary Pelham

Watercolour with ink and body colour 45.5cm x 60cm Signed: N.S. Cammillieri Built: London c1816 20142/94 tons The Lady MaryPelham was 84ft 2ins long, 24ft broad with two […]
26 June 2018

HMP Countess of Chichester

Watercolour with ink and body colour 44.5cm x 58cm Signed: N. Cammillieri Built: Falmouth, 1810 193 34/94 tons Captain Kirkness received his commission on 4th May […]
26 June 2018

Nicholas Cammillieri 1773? – 1860

From the evidence of his surviving work it appears that Nicholas Cammillieri had a full and productive life, yet the archives have so far only afforded […]
3 July 2018

Trafalgar: Gilding the Gingerbread

Sir Richard Strachan’s Action, November 3rd, 1805 If anything could have marred Britain’s joy at the outcome of the Battle of Trafalgar it was the escape […]
26 June 2018

Trafalgar: The Race for Glory

This story was researched and written by Tony Pawlyn of the Bartlett Library at the Museum for the 2005 commemoration of the Trafalgar Despatch. It is […]
26 June 2018

HMP Walsingham

Watercolour with ink and body colour 46.5cm x 58cm Unsigned Built: London 1795 185 tons Originally built for Captain Couse this Packet had a notable career […]
26 June 2018

HMP Francis Feeling

Watercolour and ink with body colour 45.5cm x 58cm Built: Falmouth  c1807 19063/94  Tons Built for Captain Stephen Bell she was 80ft 8ins in length with […]
26 June 2018

HMP Fox

Watercolour with ink and body colour 44.5cm x 59cm Signed: N.S. Cammillieri This brig of 227 tons, built in New York in 1806, was hired in […]
26 June 2018

HMP Lady Mary Pelham

Watercolour with ink and body colour 45.5cm x 60cm Signed: N.S. Cammillieri Built: London c1816 20142/94 tons The Lady MaryPelham was 84ft 2ins long, 24ft broad with two […]
26 June 2018

HMP Countess of Chichester

Watercolour with ink and body colour 44.5cm x 58cm Signed: N. Cammillieri Built: Falmouth, 1810 193 34/94 tons Captain Kirkness received his commission on 4th May […]
26 June 2018

Nicholas Cammillieri 1773? – 1860

From the evidence of his surviving work it appears that Nicholas Cammillieri had a full and productive life, yet the archives have so far only afforded […]