2-640-969 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Ships Attacked by Pirates', c1808. The brig 'Admiral Trowbridge' which, while lying at anchor off Malacca on 21 August 1807, was seized by the Malay crew. They murdered the chief officer, Mr Sharp, and set sail. Subsequent efforts to find the ship were unsucessful. From Adventures By Sea From Art of Old Time, by Basil Lubbock [The Studio Ltd., London, 1925]