Sea Adventure: The last fight of the "Revenge" (colour litho)

The last fight of the "Revenge." When Lord Thomas Howard's squadron of seven ships was surprised at the Azores in 1591 by a Spanish fleet of fifty-three, his second-in-command, Sir Richard Grenville, in the Revenge, stayed to embark the sick who had been landed. He also hoped to out-manoeuvre the enemy; unable to do this he fought the whole Spanish fleet single-handed. Although the Revenge, reduced to a wreck, was finally compelled to surrender after sixteen hours fighting, with the gallant Sir Richard mortally wounded and at last forced below, she enabled the rest to escape. Illustration for one of a set of 50 cigarette cards on the subject of Sea Adventure, issued by Hignett Brothers in 1939.