File:Storming of Rangoon - ILN 1852-0626-0008.jpg
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The Illustrated London News: Storming of Rangoon
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Unknown author engraved after sketch by Lieutenant Alfred Tubb Windus, of the Hon. East India Company's steam ship Seostris. Alfred T. Windus (Stamford-hill). |
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Storming of Rangoon |
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English: Storming of Rangoon, 14 April 1852. Here the Fox frigate is coming to her moorings astern of the Moozuffer. The time is ten minutes after ten, and shows the enemey's magazine blowing up after a shell from the Sesostris. Ships L-Rː Moozuffer, H.M.S. Fox, Sesostris, Feroze, Rockliffe, H.M.S. Rattler, Atalanta. Moozuffer (paddle steamer), H.M.S. Fox, Sesostris (INS Sesostris 1839 steamer), Feroze (HMS steamer), Rockliffe, H.M.S. Rattler, Atalanta. The Indian Navy (IN) contributed the wooden paddle-steamers frigate Moozuffer (6), Sesostris (4), Ferooz (8), Atalanta (6) Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 26 June 1852. Volume: 20, Issue: 566, page 8-9 P. Davis - W.L. Clowes on the 2nd Anglo-Burmese War [http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/mainbombay.htm Indian Navy) Fox frigate at Rangoon, on the Rangoon river. |
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| Depicted place | Rangoon | |||||||||||
| Date | 26 June 1852 | |||||||||||
| Medium | Wood engraving | |||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | The Illustrated London News | |||||||||||
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| 11:40, 28 August 2021 |  | 1,482 × 904 (973 KB) | Broichmore | {{Artwork |Artist={{unknown|Author}} engraved after sketches by Correspondents |Author=The Illustrated London News |title= Storming of Rangoon |Description={{en|1=Storming of Rangoon, 14 April 1852.<br /> Ships L-Rː Moozuffer, H.M.S. ''Fox'', Sesostris, Feroze, Rockliffe, H.M.S. ''Rattler'', Atalanta. Moozuffer (paddle steamer), H.M.S. ''Fox'', Sesostris (INS Sesostris 1839 steamer), Feroze (HMS steamer), Rockliffe, H.M.S. ''Rattler'', Atalanta. The Indian Navy (IN) contributed the wooden... |
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