File:HMS Nile; Grassy Bay from the Commissioner's House.jpg

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Date

1857

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British Library HMNTS 10470.d.2.

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Image of HMS Nile at the Grassy Bay anchorage, seen from the Commissioner's House, atop the Keep of the Royal Naval Dockyard at the Imperial fortress colony of the Somers Isles (alias the Islands of Bermuda), extracted from page 203 of Bermuda, a colony, a fortress, and a prison; or, Eighteen months in the Somers' Islands …, by WHITTINGHAM, Ferdinand. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.

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