Loss of the 'Blanche', March 4th 1807<br><p>Inscribed: (below) "Loss of the 'Blanche', March 4th 1807."; and (above) "From a plan by Sir T. Lavil [sic]". Captain Thomas Lavie was in command of the frigate 'Blanche' when she was wrecked whilst cruising off Ushant on 4 March 1807, with the loss of forty-five lives, and imprisonment of the survivors at Brest for the remainder of the Napoleonic Wars. A court martial on 2 June 1814 honourably acquitted Lavie and his officers of the loss of 'Blanche', finding that iron stanchions, cranks and arms under the half-deck had affected her compasses, in turn causing her navigation to be faulty.
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Hand-coloured.
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Pyall and Stroud (publishers); Sutherland, Thomas (engraver); Whitcombe, Thomas (artist)</div>
1807<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1807-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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