His Britannic Majesty’s armed schooner Pickle, HMS Pickle to most of us, conveying the news of the Battle of Trafalgar fought on the 21st October 1805 and the death of the British hero Nelson arrived off Falmouth, Cornwall, England on the 4th of November 1805.
This date has given rise to Pickle Night, originally an excuse for Royal Navy CPO’s at Portsmouth to commemorate Trafalgar, increasingly an excuse world wide to party, and why not?
The renowned painting, available in print from page http://www.frickers.co.uk/marine-art/urgent_dispatches.html “I have urgent dispatches” is one of 2 Pickle paintings Gordon Frickers produced while commissioned to work for HMS Victory, helping to raise funds for the restoration of the HMS Victory.
Thus this famous picture reproduced in several authoritative books and many newspapers, has several themes, sub plots including communication:
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