"Colossus", with the Gun-Boat Flotilla, leaving the Motherbank for Portland, 1856. Warships of the Royal Navy off the coast at Portsmouth: '...the Colossus, 81 guns, Captain the Hon. Henry Keppel, , with gun boats of the red and white gunboat squadron (comprising between twenty and thirty four and two gun steam-vessels) weighed in two columns, following the Colossus, and proceeded towards the westward to join the blue and light divisions of Portland'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.

---

Size: 5572px × 3748px
Photo credit: © The Print Collector / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: /, 19th, 19th-century, black, britain, british, buoy, bw, century, code, collector, colour, concept, crimean, engraved, engraving, feature, flags, fleet, geographical, geography, illustrated, iln, international, london, maritime, naval, navy, news, newspaper, newspapers, nineteenth, press, print, royal, sailing, sea, ship, ships, signal, signals, smoke, smyth, squadron, steam, steamship, transport, transportation, war, warfare, warship, warships, water, white