2-978-104 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

View of a ship struck by lightning at sea, 1700-1799. 'L'Escadre Verte ayant été accueilli d'une Violente Tempête dans la riviere de St. Laurent, le tonnerre tomba sure la Vaisseu Amiral qui en fut consumé.; il n'y eut de Sauvé de tout l'Equipage que deux femmes etrangeres, qui se Jetterent à la mer, et gagnerent la pointe d'un Rocher qui était proche'. (The Escadre Verte was caught in a violent storm on the St Lawrence River, thunder fell on the Vessel Admiral which was consumed by it; there were no survivors of the crew except two foreign women who jumped into the sea, and gained the point of a nearby rock). Engraving after a drawing by an officer of the Escadre.