Sea Adventure: Cochrane and the "Gamo" (colour litho)

Cochrane and the "Gamo." Such a wonderful reputation did Thomas, Lord Cochrane, possess with the crew of the crazy little brig, Speedy, that they got almost mutinous when he cleverly evaded a vastly superior enemy in December 1800. So when, in the following May, he met the powerful Spanish frigate Gamo he tackled her though the odds were six to one. Leaving only the doctor and a boy, he boarded with his tiny crew and would certainly have been overpowered had he not ordered a party to enter the ship over the bows with blackened faces and diabolical yells. The Spaniards took them for devils, hesitated for a moment, and were lost. Illustration for one of a set of 50 cigarette cards on the subject of Sea Adventure, issued by Hignett Brothers in 1939.