'HMS Beagle' at Anchor in a Calm

A lithograph of HMS Arethusa, a 50-gun fourth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy launched in 1849. The caption on the Print reveals that her commanding officer contemporary to ...

Claude-Joseph Vernet was famous for his marine views and was the French artist most admired in this sub-genre around the mid-18th century. Vernet first trained with his father, a l...

Inschrift: "Calm and Peace." Lord S-l-sb-ry (Skipper). "Well, Arthur, we've won our races - and now we can take it easy!" ["I hope we schall have a period of calm and peace." - Mr....

Around 1860 Japan was in turmoil about whether or not the country should engage in trade with the West. In 1863 insurgents – advocates of an isolationist policy – fired on western ...

England Home and Booty. Chief Petty Officer Alec Noble of Portsmouth comes ashore from the cruiser HMS Devonshire (39) with a clutch of bananas and a turkey. His wife and five daug...