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A two month pencil and
scalpel blade drawing working by naked eye only, of course.
Measurements of original and
print: 29 cm. X 11.6 cm. Copyright 1998.
Price of Artist`s signed conservation quality print each: £65 inclusive.
Description of
Composition: An evocative view of the King
George V class battleship Anson
at speed, shipping water (known as ‘Taking
It Green` in Royal Naval parlance) over her bow section while covering one
of the notorious Arctic convoys to North Russia in 1943. A destroyer in
the distance also forms part of
the convoy`s covering force against any form of German attack, most
especially by the Kreigsmarine`s capital ships.
Perhaps,
most notably,
Anson served as Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Moore`s flagship
during ‘Operation Tungsten` in April 1944 ; one of many air attacks
against Germany`s mighty
Tirpitz, in Altenfiord, Northern Norway.
Launched
in February 1940, at the end of the war in Europe this mighty battleship
joined the British Pacific Fleet until July 1946 returning home to become
the Training Squadron Flagship from 1948 until 1949. Anson was paid-off
into the Reserve in 1950 in the Gareloch and finally broken-up at Faslane
in 1957.
Of the five King George V class battleships built for the
Royal Navy at the beginning of the Second World War, all, of course,
played active roles throughout except
Prince of Wales
sunk along with the battle cruiser
Repulse
in December 1941, North East of Singapore.
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