H.M.S. Duke of Wellington, Portsmouth harbour

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Thomas Bush Hardy (1842-1897)
H.M.S. Duke of Wellington, Portsmouth harbour
signed, inscribed as title and dated 'T.B. Hardy. 1890' (lower left)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
10 x 6¾ in. (25.4 x 17.2 cm.)

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拍品專文

Built at Pembroke Dock as the Windsor Castle and launched on 14^th September 1852, the day of the Duke of Wellington's death, this splendid 1st Rate was renamed in the old Duke's honour two weeks later on 1^st October. Measured at 3,759 tons (5,829 tons displacement) and mounting 131 guns, mostly 32pdrs., she could make just over 10 knots under steam although she also maintained a massive sail plan. After a distinguished career as flagship in the Baltic during the war with Russia in 1854-55, she was relegated to harbour service in 1863 and remained a familiar sight at her permanent moorings in Portsmouth Harbour until finally broken up in 1904.