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Description: | The Sunderland sailor Jack Crawford (1775-1831) was the hero of the battle of Camperdown of October 11th, 1797. Crawford was serving on the flagship HMS Venerable during the battle between the English and Dutch fleets. Despite heavy gunfire, he climbed the mast to nail the Admiral's flag back into place after it had been shot away. The lowering of the flag (colours) was a signal of surrender. After more fighting, the British fleet eventually won. (The artist has mistakenly shown the Union Jack, not the Admiral's flag. It is also the Union flag design from after 1801, well after Jack's heroic achievement.) | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | work artists living in the North East art men war military | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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