Sujet

Sketches of the Caswell Mutiny, 1876. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Sketches of the Caswell Mutiny, 1876. 'James Carrick; The Caswell; The Prisoner; Court House, Queenstown; Queenstown Bridewell...George Peno seems to have persuaded the other foreigners to kill the English officers and take possession of the ship...The surviving Englishmen or Scotchmen were compelled for a time to submit to their commands...our three countrymen, James Carrick, John Dunne, and Peter Macgregor, determined to master the three Greeks, or to kill them, and bring the vessel safe home...Carrick...determined to sail her to Queenstown - a two months' sail. He worked out his resolution with extraordinary courage and ability. He scarcely ever left the wheel; he worked like a hero, attending to the navigation of the ship, and watching and attending his prisoner [Christos Bambos]'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A81_300

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

46,6Mo (3,3Mo) / 42,0cm x 27,8cm / 4960 x 3285 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation people male court man men boat boats arts country metal law art guy ship ships crime British color Ireland Greek Greece location century cargo ship iron Britain brave bravery prisoner criminal newspapers press court of law print concept navigation Cobh B&W Queenstown courthouse engraved engraving sailing ship sailing ships Colour County Cork 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W white and black law court nineteenth century The Print Collector barque Bridewell court house Illustrated London News mutiny TGN ILN seamanship newspaper mutineer Unknown 19th-century