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Watercolor showing the "Letter of Marque Grand Turk, 14 guns, entering and saluting Marseilles, 1815". The brig "Grand Turk," of 309 84-95 tons burden, built in 1812 for thirty Salem owners, at Wiscasset, Maine. The "Grand Turk" measured 102 feet in length, 28 feet beam, and 12 feet 4 inches in depth, and carried ninety-odd officers and men and eighteen or twenty guns. She had "a square stern, one deck, no galleries, and a billet figure-head."


ship portraits
1815-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Roux, Ange-Joseph Antoine
gouache; watercolor paint
5 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in
France