The fleet sailing from Spithead, 11 March 1854. After Edward Duncan (1803-1882). As the Crimean War grew closer, a fleet of Royal Navy ships assembled at Spithead on the Solent to depart for the Baltic Sea. They were to prevent Russia’s Northern Fleet from entering the North Sea and threatening Britain. Queen Victoria watched the ships depart, on board the yacht Fairy, seen here in the centre foreground flying the Royal Standard. The ships included the Royal George (left foreground) and St Jean d’Acre (leading the fleet to the right).

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