"In Memory of a happened prodigius evenement for intercession of Holy Maria of the Boschetto, to the Master and Shipowner Stefano Razeto son of Martino, his son Martino and the crew on the Bombard called "Nostra Signora of Boschetto".

 The 20th day of May 1832 in the waters of Cape Granito (Sicily); they were  chased and caught up by a Greek corsair ship wanting to capture them. The Master Stefano and all the crew in so great danger addressed confident a prayer to the Holy Virgin of the Boschetto, for which they were set free and they could safely landing in the port of Malta in which they were directed. To perpetual memna they lay on 7th day of October 1894. Martino Capt.n Razeto son of Stefano.

Unique specimen inside the nucleus of ex-voto of the Sanctuary of Boschetto, the picture here examined, dedicated to the Madonna, has been offered in thanks for the escaped danger by the crew many years later from the event by the captain's son, the same future commander of many family's ships. 

The father Stefano is effectively the exemplar of this kind of shipowning familiar enterprise whose efficient activity allowed an enormous increase of the camogliese fleet for which Camogli was defined "the city of thousand white sailships" (cfr. G. B. R. Figari "A family of camogliesi shipowners", in  the Bulletin "La Madonna del Boschetto" 1981 (3), pp.17-20). 

The bombard - here protagonist of an unpleasant encounter with the corsairs that in those years, and until 1870 approximately, hindered the navigation - had been launched in 1823 just the 2nd July, festivity day of that Madonna of the Boschetto of which she take the name, to confirm the will to put the ship under her divine protection from the beginning. 

The same ship is represented also in a painting of 1823 by G.B. Ghigliotti conserved by Stefano De Gregori, descendant of the Razeto's (cfr. Figari, cit.). 

Still the Razeto's, shipowners of the ship here represented, called "Our Lady of the Boschetto" their new brig launched in 1871 to remember, after fifty years of lucky activity, the origins of the family's fortunes, starting with this bombard.