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Series
IV
`THOSE WERE THE DAYS
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THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE 1940s. AND
1950s..
A
HEARTFELT TRIBUTE TO THE POST-WORLD WAR TWO ROYAL NAVY BY PROFESSIONAL NAVAL ARTIST,
RICHARD KENNEDY.
Welcome to our growing range
of unique, highly 'exhaustive' and very highly 'detailed' pencil and 'tip'
of a scalpel blade drawings.
'working by naked eye only, of
course'
These pictures are available as exacting, very latest technology
('stochastic screening'), acid-free, conservation, museum quality
prints.
Each print individually signed by the Artist, Richard Kennedy.
'to
the immortal memory'
'original pictures are not usually
sold'
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PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL MEASUREMENTS ARE GIVEN IN CENTIMETRES (CMS.).
`THOSE
WERE THE DAYS
..`
For
the Royal
Navy, the 1940s. and 1950s. were the final years of the gun-armed only
warship before the advent of so-called 'weapons systems' (missiles).
'when the Navy was the NAVY
..
and ships were SHIPS.....'
By
way of interest, perhaps, the
Artist is presently closely studying those notorious Arctic convoys to
North Russia during the Second World War seemingly, a 'rather
forgotten' theatre of determination and bravery alongside the Merchant
Navy against all the odds.
Future
drawings will, no doubt, depict aspects
of these heroic convoys and the wide variety of Royal Navy ships involved.
Why,
for example, is the steadfast bravery and devotion to her charges by the
armed trawler 'Ayrshire', during the ill-fated passage of Convoy PQ 17 in
July 1942, not a better known story?
'we remember and salute
all those who sailed on
the Kola Run'
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