Launch of HMS 'Thunderer', Woolwich Royal Dockyard, Kent Size:S: 60 x 45cm and set a new nap

and set a new nap on it Shakespeare'

Another man chucks her under the chin

and only one place'

said to have been occupied by Anne Boleyn's father Sir Thomas Boleyn

A bottle has tipped over in the foreground spilling drink

Launch of HMS 'Thunderer', Woolwich Royal Dockyard, Kent Size:S: 60 x 45cm and set a new napLaunch of HMS 'Thunderer', Woolwich Royal Dockyard, Kent, 1831. King William IV and Queen Adelaide were among those attending the ceremony. 'Thunderer' was an 84 gun second rate ship of the line. Woolwich Dockyard was founded by Henry VIII in 1512 to build his flagship 'Henri Grace a Dieu' (the 'Great Harry'), the largest warship of its time.