Ships:sea history Gallery

Naval battle between the British and French, 1790s

British ship "Brunswick" in battle with French navy off the coast of Brittany, late 1700s.
Printed color halftone reproduction of an illustration

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USS "Constitution" being towed by the crew in rowboats away from the becalmed British Navy, War of 1812
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Battle of Pocomoke Sound in colonial Maryland, 1630s

William Claiborne and Leonard Calvert in battle, the first naval conflict on Chesapeake Bay, 1630s.
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