Aquatint print of the wrecking of the Sceptre in a storm in Table Bay.
With three folds. This print is the frontispiece from The Mariner's Chronicle: Being a Collection of the Most Interesting Narratives of Shipwrecks, Fires, Famines, and Other Calamities Incident to a Life of Maritime Enterprise, Volume 1.
HMS 'Spectre' was in fact 64 guns, and erroneously labelled as "74 guns" by the publisher of this print. The ship was wrecked in Table Bay on 5 November 1799.
Published Nov. 1st, 1805, by James Cundee at the Albion Press, Ivy Lane, London.
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