7 (great BIG) rarely seen historical naval paintings in British Maritime Museum

[yankeedame]

French Fireships Attacking the English Fleet off Quebec, 28 June 1759

Cavalry embarking at Blackwall,24 April 1793

Shipping in a Gale, circe 1656

Building the 'Great Leviathan' (the 'Great Eastern')Date 1858

The Destruction of 'L'Orient' at the Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798

An English Ship in a Gale Trying to Claw off a Lee Shore, 1672

Moonlight View over Table Bay Showing Halley's Comet, c. 1842

[yankeedame]

Nope, no reason. Just came across this site and thought I'd post these for the enjoyment of one and all. These are just a few of the hundreds of paintings (and other neat stuff) on this site.

In case you're interested, here's a link: Collection of Painting at RN Maritime Museum

[irishtenor]

I think it’s naval, not navel. I was expecting belly buttons.

[NonValueAdded]

ping ... no painting of the USS Alliance driving off HMS Sybil, Alarm, and Tobago? :) well, understandable, that!

Interesting Web site you found, yankeedame. Thanks for sharing.

[Sidebar Moderator]

I’m not correcting your headline until you send Jim Robinson a donation.

[N. Theknow]

Where’s the lint?

[mtbopfuyn]

I think it’s naval, not navel. I was expecting belly buttons.

You beat me to it. I peeked in to see if the lent could be used to knit a fleet.

[yankeedame]

I think it’s naval, not navel. I was expecting belly buttons.

(blush,blush...) I...I knew that. I was just, er..testing you. Yeah! That's it! I was just testing you...

(P.S. But thanks for the heads-up)

[Tijeras_Slim]

Democratic Underground's First Attempt to Rival "FReeps Ahoy." Ends Badly.

[mnehring]

Navel Warfare?

[CarrotAndStick]

I peeked in to see if the lent could be used to knit a fleet.

:^)

[VOA]

bump

[yankeedame]

I’m not correcting your headline until you send Jim Robinson a donation.

LOL! Anything...anything... Five bucks on its way.

(My stars, if that isn't the perfect spell checker I don't know what is!)

[investigateworld]

Ping worthy?

[Churchillspirit]

Awesome!

Thanks.

[madison10]

...and more on the topic:

GREENWICH, England — A spectacular fire early Monday heavily damaged the clipper ship Cutty Sark, one of London's proudest relics of the 19th century tea trade with China designed to be the fastest ship of its day....

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[VeritatisSplendor]

Thank you for the great pictures.

Here’s a naval portrait for you - Horatio Nelson as a young man. Very cool, confidence bordering on arrogance but with the intelligence to back it all up.

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/mag/pages/mnuExplore/PaintingDetail.cfm?ID=BHC2901

I love Turner’s naval scenes, too.

Mrs VS

[SunkenCiv]

Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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