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| Keywords: Royal Navy - Bermuda Sloop2.jpeg John Lynn British active early 19th century A Bermuda sloop of the Royal Navy entering port in the West Indies Beginning in the 1790s the navy procured large numbers of these Bermudian vessels some ordered directly from Bermudian builders some bought up from commercial trade The most noteworthy example was HMS Pickle which brought home news of British victory at the Battle of Trafalgar The Bermudian ships which might have from one to three masts were employed at first to counter the menace of French privateers in western waters and later became the standard advice vessels of the fleet - communications carriers and fast transports of vital materials or persons They were also used for reconaissance chasing slave smugglers and other uses The vessel shown may be the earliest recorded example of the modern triangular en Bermuda rig on a multiple-masted vessel though the rig had been used in Bermuda for some time before that 1834 Technique oil canvas cm 30 2 45 5 institution National Maritime Museum Atlantic Gallery accession number BHC1161 http //collections rmg co uk/collections/objects/12653 html Royal Museums Greenwich object history credit line Macpherson Collection exhibition history Depicts Port Royal at the entrance to Kingston Harbour Jamaica source PD-old-100 John Lynn painter Paintings in the National Maritime Museum London Historical images of Jamaica Kingston Harbour 19th-century sailing ships in paintings 1834 in Jamaica 1834 paintings Sloops History of the Royal Navy | ||||
