3-017-228 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The International Naval Festival at Portsmouth: the Reine Hortense leaving Portsmouth Harbour, 1865. On the return of the '...French Minister of Marine, the Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat...to the Reine Hortense, that beautiful vessel steamed out of Portsmouth Harbour, and was followed by the Enchantress, paddle-wheel steamer, with the Lords of the Admiralty on board. As she left the harbour a salute of nineteen guns was fired from Blackhouse Fort'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.