Tag: H.M.S. Trusty
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Geoff Hunt; H.M.S. Trusty in English Harbour, Antigua 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #282
HMS Trusty (1782) was a fourth rate launched in 1782, used as a troopship from 1799 and a prison ship from 1809, and broken up in 1815. Trusty served in the navy’s Egyptian campaign (8 March to 2 September 1801. The 50-gun ship Trusty takes on stores, while to the right a sloop is careened for…