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The Letter of Marque Brig "Grand Turk" of Salem, 14 Guns, Saluting Marseilles, 1815

Forbes and Clark Collections Visualizing Maritime History Project

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