Johnny Newcome drinking grog in the cockpit with other middys (midshipmen), HMS Victory. Sextants, pistols and muskets hang from hooks on the walls, a tub of grog on the floor. The Cockpit. Containing middy’s birth, captain’s store room, GR steward’s room, hammocks, rope, chests. 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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