Ships sailing near Portsmouth, 14th and 15th centuries. Man of war with three masts and square sails, high forecastle, spar bowsprit, armorial shields, flying the royal standard, era of King Henry V from Harley MS 4379. Warship with high stern, tower on the prow, era of King Richard II from Cotton MS Domitian A 17. Handcoloured copperplate engraving etched by John Augustus Atkinson, aquatinted by Havell, after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his own Selections of Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, Colnaghi and Co., London, 1814.

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