Lt. Newcome sends Parson Gray and prostitute Bet Bouncer down into the coal hole and closes the hatch. Officers drinking and carousing in the Doctor’s Mates berth, HMS Victory. The cabin decorated with swords, lanterns, flags, muskets and spyglasses. Parson and his lass in the coal hole. 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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