'Amusements on board the Vulcan at sea', 1854 (c)

Watercolour by Second Lieutenant William Thomas Markham (1830-1886), 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade, 1854 (c).

HMS 'Vulcan', shown here with soldiers of the Rifle Brigade on deck, was an iron-hulled screw frigate. Launched in 1849, she was converted to a troopship in 1851. During the Crimean War (1854-1856) she was also used to transport sick and wounded soldiers and for the movement of Russian prisoners to Constantinople.

From an album of watercolours and sketches by Colonel William Markham, 1820 (c) and Second Lieutenant William Thomas Markham, 1854 (c).

Purchased with the assistance of the Society of Friends of the National Army Museum.