The Capture of Puerto Bello | George Chambers | 1838 Size:18"x12" There is a red flag

There is a red flag fluttering on the hulk with a weather vane on top of the flagpole pointing towards the left

On 14 November 1854

The keelmen who are employed on the river Tyne are a remarkably hardy

with the ‘Semillante’ on the right

The Capture of Puerto Bello | George Chambers | 1838 Size:18"x12" There is a red flagThe Capture of Puerto Bello, 21 November 1739. This painting is based on an engraving from a more contemporary painting by Samuel Scott. In the summer of 1739, during a debate in the House of Commons relating to the deteriorating situation with Spain in the West Indies, Captain Edward Vernon claimed he could take the Spanish town of Puerto Bello, Panama, on the north side of the Isthmus of Darien with six ships of the line. He was taken at his word,