Midshipman Newcome transferred by rowboat to the HMS Vanguard near Gibraltar. Johnny in disgrace sent to another ship. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Charles Williams from John Mitford’s Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy, London, 1819.

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