Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, 1st Baronet was a Royal Navy officer, politician and colonial administrator. As captain of the 58-gun HMS Eagle, he engaged and defeated the French 50-gun Duc d'Aquitain off
Portrait attributed to George Dance the Younger, c. 1775
A model of the hull of HMS Captain after her 1708 rebuild
Depiction of the Battle of Ushant in 1778 by Théodore Gudin, c. 1848
James Cook's 1775 Chart of Newfoundland
Admiral of the Red Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As a junior officer he saw action during the War of the Austrian Succession. While in temporary command of An
Portrait by James Northcote, 1784
The Battle of the Chesapeake, at which Hood was defeated
1795 portrait of Hood by Lemuel Francis Abbott
The Officers Monument, Greenwich Hospital Cemetery