Naval Officer Collection (#16)

George Anson, Baron Anson (1697-1762), English naval commander. Anson command a Royal Navy squadron of 6 ships sent to attack Spanish interests in South America at the outset of the War of Austrian

James Cook, English explorer, navigator and hydrographer, 1775-1776. Artist: Nathaniel Dance-Holland
James Cook, English explorer, navigator and hydrographer, 1775-1776. Captain Cook (1728-1779) in naval uniform, seated, with his hand resting on a map of the world

Jean Bart, French privateer and naval officer, 19th century. Bart (1651-1702) served in the French Navy in the war between Louis XIV and the United Provinces

Mutiny of the crew of HMS Bounty, 28 April 1789. Lieutenant William Bligh (1754-1817), English naval officer and his 18 companions cast adrift in a longboat by Fletcher Christian

Andrew Hull Foote, American naval officer, late 19th century. Foote (1806-1863) served in the Union Navy in the American Civil War

Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805. Admiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805) on the deck of HMS Victory during the battle where the British navy decisively defeated the Franco-Spanish fleet

Death of Nelson on board HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 (1827). One of Britains greatest military figures, Admiral Nelson (1758-1805)

Admiral David Beatty (1871-1936), British naval commander, World War I, 1914-1918
Admiral David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871-1936), British naval commander, World War I, 1914-1918. Beatty commanded the Royal Navys battlecruisers at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916

John Felton (1595?-1628), English Puritan naval officer, 1830. Artist: Richard Sawyer
John Felton (1595?-1628), English Puritan naval officer, 1830. Felton murdered George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham at Portsmouth on 23 August 1628

Richard Kempenfelt (1718-1782), English naval officer of Swedish descent. Kempenfelt commanded HM ships in the East Indies in the Seven Years War (1756-1763)

Neptune raising James Cook to immortality and fame, late 18th century. The name of Captain Cook (1728-1779), English navigator, explorer and hydrographer, is being written in the book of history

Captain Cooks third Pacific voyage, 1779 (1832). James Cook (1728-1779) English navigator, explorer, and hydrographer, receiving ritual tribute from Sandwich Islanders

Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, British naval commander, 1857
Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons, British naval commander, c1860. Lyons (1790-1858) commanded the British fleet in the Black Sea during the Crimean War (1853-1856)

Hobart Pacha, English naval officer and naval advisor to Turkey, c1880. Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden (1822-1886) was appointed a Marshal of the Ottoman Empire

The Death of Nelson, 1805, (1859-1864). Artist: Daniel Maclise
The Death of Nelson, 1805, (1859-1864). The death of Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1804) at the Battle of Trafalgar. From the collection of the National Museums, Liverpool

Dispute over who was the first to reach the North Pole, 1909. American naval officer and explorer Robert E Peary (1856-1920)

Robert Edwin Peary, American naval officer and explorer, 1909. Peary (1856-1920) is generally credited with being the leader of the first successful expidition to the North Pole (1909)

The arrest of Dr Crippen and Ethel le Neve, 1910. Murderer Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen and his lover, Ethel le Neve, being arrested on board the Atlantic liner Montrose

Korrigan, French navy submarine, 1906. Monsieur Thomson, the French navy minister, making a dive in the submarine Korrigan at the location where her sister ship Lutin was lost

French naval exercises, 1908. The submarine Dorade surfacing to tell a nearby ironclad that she has been sunk. Illustration from Le Petit Journal. (Paris, 1908)

Maritime Telegraph, c1900. Sailors hoisting flags which have been assembled to convey a message to a nearby vessel. For centuries signals were sent from vessel to vessel using flags

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