Title

H.M.S. "Colossus", with the Gun-Boat Flotilla, leaving the Motherbank for Portland, 1856. Creator: Smyth.

Caption

H.M.S. "Colossus", with the Gun-Boat Flotilla, leaving the Motherbank for Portland, 1856. Warships of the Royal Navy off the coast at Portsmouth: '...the Colossus, 81 guns, Captain the Hon. Henry Keppel, C.B., with gun boats of the red and white division...the gunboat squadron (comprising between twenty and thirty four and two gun steam-vessels) weighed in two columns, following the Colossus, and proceeded towards the westward to join the blue and light divisions of gunboats...at Portland'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.

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Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM23A57_180

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Keywords

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