Maritiem Digitaal
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inventarisnummer | WPN1287
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collectie | Edged Weapons
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museum | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
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datum | circa 1800
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omschrijving | 1804 pattern cutlass. Cutlasses- boarding axes and pikes formed part of the weaponry of the ship’s company- being distributed from stores before an engagement. The first regulation cutlass appeared about 1804. A robust weapon- it had a long straight blade and a black iron double disc hilt.
James Spratt- master’s mate on board the ‘Defiance’ at Trafalgar wrote a spirited account of the hand-to-hand fighting- ‘..a Granadier from the starboard gangway with fixed bayonet thought to run me through but I parried his thrust with my blade- he then retired a little loading his piece at my breast which I struck down with my trusty old friend the cutlass…’.
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afmetingen | Blade: 587 x 32 mm
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