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A Pair Of Royal George Model CannonCirca 1840
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Circa 1840
Circa 1840
18.5 cm. barrels
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Offered with a copy of A Narrative Of The Loss Of The Royal George... (upper cover only of timber from the Royal George), 9th edition, Portsea (n.d., circa 1845)
H.M.S. Royal George was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. At the time of her launch in 1756 she was the largest warship in the world and saw service during the Seven Years War. She sank at Portsmouth in 1782 with the loss of more than 800 lives, one of the most serious maritime losses in British waters. A fund was established by Lloyd's Coffee House to provide aid to widows and children of the sailors lost in the sinking, which was the foundation of what would become the Lloyd's Patriotic Fund








