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The Gallery Of H.M.S. 'Calcutta' (Portsmouth)
''The Gallery of HMS 'Calcutta' (Portsmouth)'', also known as ''Officer and Ladies on Board HMS Calcutta'', is an 1876 oil painting by James Tissot. It depicts two ladies in fashionable clothing and a young naval lieutenant, standing on the quarter gallery at the stern of the Royal Navy warship HMS ''Calcutta''. The painting is held by the Tate Gallery in London and measures . Background HMS ''Calcutta'' was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line, built from teak in Bombay in 1831. After a period in reserve, she was recommissioned in 1855 to serve in the Baltic in the Crimean War, and then served in the Second Opium War in the Far East in 1856-8. She was the British ship of the line to visit Japan in 1858. She became a gunnery training ship in 1865 in Portsmouth Dockyard. Astern of the ''Calcutta'' was the hulk of HMS ''Queen Charlotte'' which housed the navy's gunnery school, HMS ''Excellent''. She was later moved to Devonport, Devon, after HMS ''Excellent'' was m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Tissot - The Gallery Of HMS Calcutta (Portsmouth)
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HMS Excellent (shore Establishment)
HMS ''Excellent'' is a Royal Navy "stone frigate" (shore establishment) sited on Whale Island near Portsmouth in Hampshire. HMS ''Excellent'' is itself part of the Maritime Warfare School, with a headquarters at HMS ''Collingwood'', although a number of lodger units are resident within the site, the principal of which is the headquarters of Fleet Commander (Navy Command Headquarters). History RN Gunnery School afloat In the 1829 a Commander George Smith advocated the establishment of a Naval School of Gunnery; accordingly, the following year, the third-rate HMS ''Excellent'' was converted into a training ship and moored just north of Portsmouth Dockyard, opposite Fareham Creek. Smith was given oversight and set up ''Excellent'' not only as a training establishment but also as a platform for experimental firing of new weapons (the creek was used as a firing range). In 1832 Smith was replaced in command by Captain Thomas Hastings, under whom the school grew both numerically a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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