Hi Brian , I did two weeks training on HMS DUKE OF YORK, a fantastic ship.it had ten 14 inch guns and 8 5.25 inch cuns along the sides.Here is a photo of me in 1950 underthe forard six 14 inchers one turret on the quarter deck aft had another four 14 inchers.Originally Posted by brian daley
Great pictures Brian,were you with the sea cadets? And did you realise then what a piece of history you were a part of.
Shown below is a painting by the German war artist Adolf Bock, and it shows the heroically tragic encounter betwwen the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper and the British destroyer ,HMS Glowworm.The Hipper caught Glowworm as she cma out of a fog bank off the Norwegian coast on April 8 1940. In less than a minute Hipper struck her with a couple of salvos at a range of 300 yards .But Glowworm rammed the Hipper just before sinking.
BrianD
Great stuff guys.
I was kindly sent this picture of the Mauretania in her wartime livery as a hospital ship. The painting is by Kenneth D .Shoesmith ,one of the great marine artists ,who is the subject of a book soon to be published and the author of it ,Glyn L.Evans sent me this and gave me permission to post it here. I have never seen this one before; does anyone out there have any pictures,prints or postcards by this artist? I know that Glyn would be very interested to hear from you if you have,
BrianD
Here are some veterans of the old trooping service;foremost is the Serapis. Constructed for the Raj,they had the Star of India emblazoned on the bow.Allof the troopships had the same main paintwork but were distinguished by the different coloured stripes around the hull.Built in 1866,she could carry 1,200 personnel. Before the Suez Canal was opened she used to troop from Portsmouth to Alexandria.After years of continuous trooping she was withdrawn in 1894 and broken up shortly afterwards.
This painting was done by Charles Dixon forthe book, Britannias Bulwarks,
BrianD
What a ship. Nice one Brian.
Kenneth Shoesmith was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, in 1890 and died in London in 1939.
He Painted all the Posters for the shipping companies.
see his name on google
Kenneth Shoesmith was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, in 1890 and died in London in 1939.
He painted all the Posters for the major shipping companies
Hi Brian,Glyn knows all that, what he is looking for are paintings that he might not have seen,like the one I posted of the Hospital ship at Alexandria, he is using that one. Keep a sharp lookout when you see those old posters,could be worth something,
BrianD
Hi Brian all the posters are on various sites when you type his name into Google but they are copywrite. So I dont know if we can post them or not. Take a look
I don't download any prints just in case we infringe some copyrights. All the pictures I have posted are from books,magazines and periodicals that are mine.The majority of my pictures are from old postcards,of which I still have plenty that I have'nt posted yet;I'll stick a few more on for you toget your teeth into,
BrianD
Hi Brian
I think you are correct not to post the pictures here, although you could give the website addresses where the paintings or photographs can be found and viewed by us. That would be perfectly permissible.
Thanks.
Cheers
Chris
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Here are three very different illustrations 0f ships at war,the first is by the Canadian war artist Alfred Leete ,and he shows ships under attack by a German surface raider. The men in the water stand very little chance of survival because the raiders had ti hit and run. A fearful scene and one that was enacted too many times in the oceans of the world.
Secondly, we are shown a scene in the English Channel in which an old paddle wheeler is shown charging down the channel trying to defend her charges in the convoy. The artist ,William Dringwas a Royal Navy man who ended the war in a German POW camp.
And,finally,we have the enemy,a German U-Boat surfaced to get some fresh in the rather fetid below decks. TRhis fine picture was painted by the German war artist Claus Bergen. I have alot of propaganda posters from all sides in this conflict,please let me know if you would like to see them,
BrianD
At the Battle of the Falklands,8 th December 1914, the cruiser Kent went in pursuit of the German Nurnberg. Kent was a poor steamer and could rarely attain her designed 23 knots but on this day she was stoked to full speed for over 8 hours ,achieving a speed of 24 knots. This painting,unattributed,gives a wonderful view of the hell the stokers worked in to get the job done,
BrianD
Two painting by one of the greatest British war artists Norman(later Sir Norman) Wilkinson.
The first is from 1942 and shows the German battle cruisers,Scharnhorst and Gneisenau dashing down the English Channel with British Swordfish in full pursuit.These ships sank more than 115,000 t6ons of shipping in the North Atlantic in 1941.
The second picture shows the bombing of the German battleship Tirpitz in a Norwegian fjord by British Barracuda bombers. Continuous harassment by air ,and by midget submarines, helped sank her in 1944. Wonderfully graphic depictions of epic battles,
BrianD
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