3-053-406 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Coronation in Norway: arrival of the Queen at Orland, 1873. 'Agincourt (Flagship); Northumberland; Sultan; Swedish Corvette, with Queen; Hercules; Norwegian Flagship, with King; Norwegian Corvette...the British squadron...consisted of the ironclads Agincourt, Hercules, Northumberland, and Sultan, with the Valorous as tender. It was joined on the Wednesday by the Admiralty yacht Enchantress, with his Royal Highness Prince Arthur...the foreign war ships in the harbour, which were dressed with all their flags, fired a Royal salute at ten o'clock in the forenoon. The British ships have been named; the Agincourt bore the flag. The German Empire had sent four ships of war - the Hertha, on which Admiral Heldt's flag was hoisted, the Vineta, the Ariadne, the Arcona, and the tender-beat Nautilus. Denmark had sent one frigate, the Sjoelland, on board which Prince Waldemar served as a naval cadet. The Swedish and Norwegian fleets were, of course, strongly represented; in the Swedish squadron was the Balder...Our view of the ships at Orland, when the King and Queen met each other, in presence of the Norwegian and British squadrons, is from a sketch by Mr. C. F. M. Somerset, midshipman of H.M.S. Northumberland'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.