A three-masted frigate sails from right to left in a choppy sea. A smaller craft with reddish-brown sails is sailing in the opposite direction in the lower left corner, and a distant lighthouse is in the lower right corner.

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Henry Andrews Luscombe (British, 1820-1899), A frigate, 1852, oil on canvas.

Courtesy Royal Museums Greenwich, rmg.co.uk

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A two-masted ship flying two red flags is sailing from right to left in a choppy sea. Figures are standing on its deck. A crowded rowboat with six people on board is to the left of the ship. A lighthouse tower stands in the background at the lower left of the painting, next to a coastal fortification. Other ships and boats are in the background.

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Samuel Walters (British, 1811-1882), The Snow "Trinculo," n.d., oil on canvas.

Courtesy Merseyside Maritime Museum, liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime-museum

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A racing yacht with billowed sails on a choppy sea, operated by a crew of four and flying the US flag, is at the center of the painting, moving left to right. A lighthouse tower is in the background to the lower left, and four more boats are in the background to the right.

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James E. Buttersworth (British, 1817–1894), Yacht Chiquita in a Race off #Boston Light, ca. 1880, oil on canvas.

Exhibited in the Peabody Essex Museum, pem.org

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