HMS 'Clyde' Arriving at Sheerness After the 'Nore' Mutiny, 30 May 1797.
<p>The 'Clyde' is shown arriving at sunrise in the Medway, off Sheerness Dockyard. She is in the left middle distance, in port-bow view, on the starboard tack, flying a white ensign but with a red one hanging over her port quarter rail as a signal. Nearer, centre left, is a cutter in starboard-bow view, moored to a buoy and with a boat under her stern. In the left foreground is a large mooring buoy. On the right of the picture, against the rising sun, is a sheer hulk used for masting or de-masting ships, shown in bow and starboard-broadside view, with people waving to the 'Clyde' in her stern. Beyond the hulk is part of Sheerness Dockyard, with buildings, a ship on the stocks and a crowd of people waving on the fortifications. In the distance to the north-east ships of the mutinous fleet lie at anchor.
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The painting is one of two commemorating the Clyde's escape from the Nore under her captain, Charles Cunningham. The first depicts the daring night time escape.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18672864" class="extiw" title="d:Q18672864"><span title="English marine painter">William Joy</span></a>
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1830<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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