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| Keywords: 'Favourite' and 'Active' taking Hermione.jpg en 'Favourite' and 'Active' taking 'Hermione' 1 November 1762 http //www grosvenorprints com/stock_detail php ref 7408 Wright Richard To Captain Sawyer and Captain Pownall this view of the Hermione a Spanish Register Ship is most Humbly Inscribed by their most Obedt Servt R Wright This immensly rich Prize was taken off Cape St Vincent May 31 1762 by his Majesty's Frigate the Active and the Favourite Sloop of War and reckoned worth a million Sterling Her Money and Plate was landed at Portsmouth and conveyed to London in Twenty Waggons escorted by a Party of Light Horse; and it is remarkable that the Tower Guns were firing on account of the Birth of the Prince of Wales as the Waggons were going by St James's Gate The Hermione was a Spanish Frigate of War of Twenty four Guns draughted by an English Builder at Cadiz and was the Ship that fired several Broadsides into the Antigallican when she lay there with her value-able French Prize which was detained by the most unjust Proceedings of the Spaniards <br> R Wright pinxit et fecit <br> Published as the Act directs Novr 1 1762 other versions PD-old Uploaded with UploadWizard Google Art Project works by Richard Wright Richard Wright painter | ||||
