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The Outer Harbor of Brest is an 18th-century painting by Flemish artist Henri Joseph van Blarenberghe,
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The Battle of Camperdown (1797) by Thomas Whitcombe
The Battle of Camperdown was an ill-fated attempt by the Batavian Republic (the Netherlands) to break the blockade of its coast by the British. The painting shows the Dutch flagship De Vrijheid (74 guns) being attacked from several sides while another Dutch ship, Hercules, burns in the foreground.
After the French overran the Dutch Republic in 1795/96 during the war of the first coalition, a puppet regime was installed and the country became the short lived Batavian Republic. This gave the French acces to the weakened but still sizable Dutch navy, causing the British to blockade the Dutch coast and locking up the fleet in harbour.
The newly installed pro-french Vice Admiral Jan de Winter was tasked with seeking out the British to try and break the blockade.
The fleets met off Camperdown, 16 British ships of the line and 15 Dutch with the British ships generally being more heavily armed and constructed than their Dutch counterparts. Admiral Adam Duncan divided his force, and broke through the Dutch line in two places, separating the Vanguard, centre and rearguard. What followed was a confused melee, in which the British quickly overwhelmed the Dutch rear, while the vans fought a more evenly matched battle, until there too the demoralised Dutch were overwhelmed by the well-trained British. In the end only De Winter and his dismasted flagship fought on, being surrounded and fired on by three British ships. When the British boarded De Vrijheid and forced a surrender they found the Admiral trying to repair his barge in order to try and continue the fight from another Dutch ship.
The Battle of Camperdown was an ill-fated attempt by the Batavian Republic (the Netherlands) to break the blockade of its coast by the British. The painting shows the Dutch flagship De Vrijheid (74 guns) being attacked from several sides while another Dutch ship, Hercules, burns in the foreground.
After the French overran the Dutch Republic in 1795/96 during the war of the first coalition, a puppet regime was installed and the country became the short lived Batavian Republic. This gave the French acces to the weakened but still sizable Dutch navy, causing the British to blockade the Dutch coast and locking up the fleet in harbour.
The newly installed pro-french Vice Admiral Jan de Winter was tasked with seeking out the British to try and break the blockade.
The fleets met off Camperdown, 16 British ships of the line and 15 Dutch with the British ships generally being more heavily armed and constructed than their Dutch counterparts. Admiral Adam Duncan divided his force, and broke through the Dutch line in two places, separating the Vanguard, centre and rearguard. What followed was a confused melee, in which the British quickly overwhelmed the Dutch rear, while the vans fought a more evenly matched battle, until there too the demoralised Dutch were overwhelmed by the well-trained British. In the end only De Winter and his dismasted flagship fought on, being surrounded and fired on by three British ships. When the British boarded De Vrijheid and forced a surrender they found the Admiral trying to repair his barge in order to try and continue the fight from another Dutch ship.
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"An Italian corvette in the Bay of Naples", 1863 by Tommaso De Simone
This painting shows an Italian paddle corvette at anchor in the bay of Napoli. The ship-of-the-line on the right background looks like she is flying the Italian ensign as well, so that would make her the Re Galantuomo (formerly Monarca of the navy of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies), only ship of her kind to serve in the Regia Marina.
Despite surpassed by the development of the screw propeller, paddle warships featured quite prominently in the most important navies around the 1840s.
When the Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed (17 March 1861), no less than forty of the ships that became part of the Regia Marina were paddle steamers (out of seventy-one steamers in total). Of these, eleven were frigates (classified as 'second-rate frigates') and seven were corvettes (likewise 'second-rate corvettes'). Just to add to the context, there still were twenty-four sail ships around, of which three frigates, six corvettes and six brigs.
This painting shows an Italian paddle corvette at anchor in the bay of Napoli. The ship-of-the-line on the right background looks like she is flying the Italian ensign as well, so that would make her the Re Galantuomo (formerly Monarca of the navy of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies), only ship of her kind to serve in the Regia Marina.
Despite surpassed by the development of the screw propeller, paddle warships featured quite prominently in the most important navies around the 1840s.
When the Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed (17 March 1861), no less than forty of the ships that became part of the Regia Marina were paddle steamers (out of seventy-one steamers in total). Of these, eleven were frigates (classified as 'second-rate frigates') and seven were corvettes (likewise 'second-rate corvettes'). Just to add to the context, there still were twenty-four sail ships around, of which three frigates, six corvettes and six brigs.
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"Fight of the steamer Vesta with the Ottoman ironclad Fetkh-i Bulend at the Black Sea July 11, 1877" by Rufin Sudkovsky
This engagement took place in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-8, between the Ottoman ironclad Feth-i Bülend ("Great Victory") and the Russian gunboat/converted steamer Vesta. On the latter served a young Zinovy Rozhestvensky, future commander of the ill-fated Second Pacific Squadron that ended up destroyed at Tsushima in 1905.
Both vessels were lightly damaged before Vesta escaped.
This engagement took place in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-8, between the Ottoman ironclad Feth-i Bülend ("Great Victory") and the Russian gunboat/converted steamer Vesta. On the latter served a young Zinovy Rozhestvensky, future commander of the ill-fated Second Pacific Squadron that ended up destroyed at Tsushima in 1905.
Both vessels were lightly damaged before Vesta escaped.
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"Kamikaze," watercolor by combat artist Dwight Shepler, depicts an unsuccessful suicide attack by a Japanese "Zero" fighter on the aircraft carrier Hornet (CV 12) on 18 March 1945. Hornet was operating at the time as part of Task Force 58, launching strikes against the Japanese Home Island of Kyushu. These attacks were designed to reduce the number of Japanese aircraft that would be available for kamikaze operations against the US fleet during the invasion of Okinawa
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