The 'Victory' Leaving the Channel | Monamy Swaine | 1795 19th Century she saw service in the

she saw service in the Mediterranean from 1830-1 and in 1841

on the north side of the Isthmus of Darien with six ships of the line

Medina Sidonia was an aristocrat without naval command experience but was made commander by King Philip II

The Capture of Puerto Bello

The convicts were kept below to allow the women and children to be safely evacuated by the ship's boats

The 'Victory' Leaving the Channel | Monamy Swaine | 1795 19th Century she saw service in theThe 'Victory' Leaving the Channel in 1793. The 'Victory' is shown broadside to port, going down Channel to windward with Rudyerd's Eddystone Lighthouse distantly visible beyond her stern. She is shown flying the flag of Lord Hood as Vice Admiral of the Red (red at the fore), as she heads outward bound with her squadron in 1793 for the Mediterranean, where she was Hood's flagship at the Siege of Toulon and the invasion of Corsica. Hood had been