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A
two month pencil and scalpel blade drawing working by naked eye only, of
course.
Measurements of original and
print: 15.5 cm. x 6.8 cm. Copyright 1996.
Price of Artist`s signed
conservation quality print each: £50 inclusive.
Description
of Composition:
A very dramatic and evocative view
of the ‘Tribal` class destroyer Cossack in 1938 below a stormy
sky.
These pre-World War Two ‘Tribal`
class ships represented the pinnacle of Royal Navy destroyer design at
that time and were particularly intended to outclass the heavy, new
destroyers being built at that period by several foreign navies.
Regretfully, only four of the sixteen
‘Tribals` built for the Royal Navy survived the war.
Cossack, commanded by Captain Philip Vian, freed 300 merchant seamen
prisoners from the Graf Spee's supply ship, Altmark, in
Josenfiord, Norway, in February 1940. In April 1940, she took part in the
Second Battle of Narvik.
As part of the 4th.
Destroyer Flotilla, on the 26th. May 1941, she was involved in
nighttime torpedo attacks on the already wounded Bismarck. However,
after much duty in the North Atlantic, Cossack was sunk by a U-boat
there in October 1942.
Lessons learned, especially during the two Battles of Narvik at the start
of the war, meant increasing anti-aircraft protection being added to all
warships including the superb looking ‘Tribals`, of course.
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