British Sailors Boarding a Man of War


British Sailors Boarding a Man of War. The recapture of the British ‘Hermione’ in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, by boats of the ‘Surprise’, two years after her crew had mutinied against the sadistic Captain Pigot, killed him and most of his officers, and handed the ship over to the Spaniards. 4 June 1815, Atkinson; Fry & Sutherland; Edward Orme