Hms Surprise Tapestries

Description: Made using an original hand drawn and digitally coloured illustration.

Description: Master and Commander - HMS Surprise was the name the Royal Navy gave to the French Navy's corvette Unité after Unité's capture in 1796. Historical fiction author Patrick O'Brian set many of his Aubrey–Maturin series aboard HMS Surprise, including the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

Description: Master and Commander - The Acheron is the formidable French privateer ship pursued by Captain Jack Aubrey's HMS Surprise in the film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

Description: Master and Commander - Jack Aubrey is a fictional character in the Aubrey–Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian. The series of novels portrays his rise from lieutenant to rear admiral in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.