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 stirring, spectacular view of  Vigo in 1959 below a crackling sky, racing clouds and dark sea. Highly atmospheric. For Richard Kennedy, the twenty-four ‘Battle` class ships represented the ‘finest looking` of the many destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. In fact, all were building towards the end of that conflict and into peacetime and only Barfleur served with the British Pacific Fleet.  Vigo was one of the sixteen ‘Early` ‘Battles`, being launched in September 1945. In 1949 she served in the 3rd. Destroyer Flotilla  - after three years of having gone straight into Reserve after completion in 1946! – formed to replace the remaining ‘V` class destroyers in the Mediterranean. In 1954 she replaced another ‘Early` ‘Battle`, Finisterre, as Gunnery Training Ship based at Portsmouth. Having, again, been  placed into Reserve in 1959, Vigo was finally broken-up at Faslane in December 1964.