The Anglo-French fleet in the Baltic, 22 July 1854

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The Anglo-French fleet in the Baltic, 22 July 1854 Long Caption: This coloured lithograph depicts a flotilla of English paddle steamers making its way through the Ango Channel to attack the Russian defences at Bomarsund in the Aland Islands on 22nd July, 1854. It is being led by the ‘Lightning’, the small, dark-hulled steamship in the centre foreground, under Capt. J.B. Sullivan. Credit line: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Object: PAH8327 Artist: Oswald Walters Brierly; Jonathan Needham; Day & Son Date: 1855 Medium: lithograph, tinted Size: 406 mm x 299 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.