£100 - £200
HMS Anson, 1807, Loe Bar, nr Porthleven A ship's deadeye With remnants of rope rigging, height 41cm. A fifth rate, her target was principally privateers during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. She sank in a storm off Loe Bar in 1807. More than 100 men died. The maltreatment of the bodies subsequently caused outrage and famously led to the Burial of Drowned Persons Act 1808 that stated that unclaimed bodies of those cast ashore from the sea should be interred in consecrated ground. The survival of the ship’s medical equipment mean that this is a significant sub set of this collection.
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