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Description: | A mustachioed male figure in classical drapes, representing a Roman tribune, that formed the figurehead of HMS 'Tribune'. This was a wooden screw corvette of 1570 tons, built at Sheerness Dockyard in 1852-53. ?Tribune? formed part of Baltic fleet in1854 during the Crimea War. Later that year she was in the Black Sea and in October was deployed bombarding Sebastopol. 1855 she took part in a military expedition to the Sea of Azov and the attack on Kinburn. In 1857 she was sent to China during Second Opium War. She was sold to Marshall of Plymouth in August 1866.
Finish: paint (polychrome). | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Subjects: | Tribune 1853 (HMS) figureheads | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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