Saturday, January 7, 2017

Robert Dampier, HMS Blonde

Washington Place, Honolulu

Date: 1825
Technique: Oil on canvas

HMS Blonde was a 46-gun modified Apollo-class fifth-rate frigate of 1,103 tons burthen. She undertook an important voyage to the Pacific in 1824. She was used for harbour service from 1850 and was renamed HMS Calypso in 1870, before being sold in 1895.

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