English Regency sailors saving men overboard after a naval engagement. Captain Bowsprit extends an oar to a drowning matelot. Sailors on a rowboat use belts and pike to aid men in the water. Aftermath of a sea battle with the French. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Charles Williams from The Post Captain, or Adventures of a True British Tar by a Naval Officer, J. Johnston, London, 1817. Attributed to Alfred Thornton or John Mitford.

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