The Old St Vincent leaving Portsmouth on its Last Voyage by Thomas Hale-Sanders

Thomas Hale-Sanders (active late 19th - early 20th century)
The Old St Vincent Leaving Portsmouth on its Last Voyage

oil on canvas, signed and dated 1913

Overall size including frame: 68 cm x 111 cm
Attractively framed

The old three-decker HMS St Vincent was launched in 1815. In her prime she carried 120 guns and played a major role in the Crimean War.

Released from sea duty in 1862 she became a training ship for boy cadets with a permanent mooring at the mouth of Haslar Creek, just inside Portsmouth Harbour, until she was finally retired in 1905 and broken up at Falmouth in 1906.