Tag: HMS Bellona

Geoff Hunt, Bellona and Courageux coming home, 1761 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #138

Feb 16, 2019

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Geoff Hunt, PPRSMA (born 1948)Bellona and Courageux coming home, Spithead 1761Oil on canvasPrivate collection‘HMS Bellona (left) was one of the first of the new British standard 74-gun ships – a long-lived ship, completed in 1760, still active in 1813. On 15 August 1761 she ran into the powerful French Courageux 74 off the coast of…