So what did the Phoenix look like before she sank. Well all I can do to answer this is to place up a few images of east indiamen of the similar period. The image above is of a slightly bigger east indiaman coming under full sail. She is even flying the flags of the Company. This one shows a round house on the stern but im not sure she had one. This is a 36 to forty gunner by the look of her.
These two images are closer in size and style for the Phoenix and the one below even looks like she is sinking by the bows. I really like the image below and may even have it painted with a golden Phoenix on her bows as a figurehead. Must have looked awesome sinking behind Samson Island. That is where I found her remains in 2017. Very little of her left on the sea bed today. Just paint some waves coming over her starboard side and the island of mincarlo rising in the background and there you have the scene in the deep winter of 1680.
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