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Storm and Sunshine: A Battle with the Elements

Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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A painting showing the hulk of the wooden frigate 'Leonidas' anchored near Upnor on the Medway in Kent. The 'Leonidas' was launched in 1807 and by 1872 had ceased active service to become a powder hulk storing gun cotton. By the 1880s, with the coming of steel and steam power, many of the old 'wooden walls' were being used in naval anchorages for such purposes. The hulk of the ship looms up with the crowned, head-and-shoulders figurehead of Leonidas on the bow, and the carved head of a lion on the ship also denotes Leonidas. There are figures on the companionway gesturing towards the smaller craft heading towards the hulk to collect gun cotton. These are Thames sailing barges with their masts and sails lowered, under tow as a connected string from a small steam tug in the left background.

National Maritime Museum

London

Title

Storm and Sunshine: A Battle with the Elements

Date

1885

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 104.5 x W 164 cm

Accession number

BHC1348

Work type

Painting

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