Sailors from HMS Zarethusa on shore leave spending 300 pounds of prize money, Napoleonic era. Jack Transom stands on the roof of a speeding coach, with other sailors, prostitutes, and musicians drinking whisky and grog. An ensign with the name of their ship and a Union Jack flap in the wind. Dogs, pigs, ducks, and children run alongside. Sailors on a Cruise. Handcoloured lithograph by George Cruikshank from Greenwich Hospital, a Series of Naval Sketches, by An Old Sailor (Matthew H. Barker), published by James Robins, London, 1826.

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