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The Grand Naval Review, at Spithead: Excursionists going to View the Fleet - scene on the "Hard", 1856. Sightseers flocking to a display of Royal Navy ships off the coast of Hampshire. 'The masses of people of every class which had assembled in Portsmouth had begun early to throng the places where the best view could be gained of the scene'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.