Helsingfors and Sweaborg. English &amp; French screw line of battle ships at anchor.<br><p>Escorts at Suomenlinna 1854, Crimean War.<br></p>
In 1854, at the outbreak of the Crimean War, Oswald Walters Brierly (1817–1894), marine painter and naval engineer, joined Captain Henry Keppel as artist–observer on the man-of-war HMS St John d’Acre in the allied Baltic fleet.
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Oswald Walters Brierly</div>
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