Oct 18, 2024
The beautiful French frigate L'Hermione from 1780, sailing in line astern behind a modern French Aquitaine class frigate Provence, 2015
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The beautiful French frigate L'Hermione from 1780, sailing in line astern behind a modern French Aquitaine class frigate Provence, 2015
If “Sans Pareil” sounds an unusual name for the RN, the Brits got it honest when they captured the brand-new 80-gun French Tonnant-class ship of the line, Sans Pareil (Without Equal), at the pitched 1794 battle of the Glorious First of June. Though she was mauled and half her crew killed, the Brits towed their trophy into Spithead, mopped the blood off, fixed her back up, and, without even a name change, she became the bane of French privateers and man-o-wars alike for a decade, used as the flagship of both Admirals Lord Hugh Seymour and Richard Montague.
I’ve been adding prints to my INPRNT shop recently, and just added this painting of L’Hermione!
French Frigate, by Antoine Roux, 19th Century
L'Hermione
Untitled, by John Bentham Dinsdale (1927-2008)
L’Hermione, by Gordon Frickers, 2021
L'HERMIONE dans le Raz de Sein von Ronan Follic