The 'Victory' Leaving the Channel | Monamy Swaine | 1795 19th Century on the north side of

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

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

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

The warrior’s shields can be seen fixed to the side of the junk in between all the oars

The 'Victory' Leaving the Channel | Monamy Swaine | 1795 19th Century on the north side ofThe '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