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A
'one off`, very less
'detailed` and 'exhaustive` picture than nearly all of the others in our
growing range but a highly atmospheric pencil and and scalpel blade
drawing that so many wanted to see available as a conservation quality
print.
Price of Artist`s signed conservation quality print each:
£70 inclusive.
Measurements of original and
print: 10.3 cm. X 45.5 cm.
Copyright 1996.
A two week pencil and
scalpel blade drawing working by naked eye only, of course.
Description of composition:
Although these three cruisers did not regularly serve alongside each other
in the latter part of World War Two, each was representative of a cruiser
class and so Richard Kennedy has nonetheless brought all three together in a
highly atmospheric picture.
For fullish story of
Belfast's illustrious career, please
visit any of the drawings relating to her in the Royal Navy Galleries.
Launched in July 1939 and completed in September 1940,
Dido (centre) was built as a true
anti-aircraft cruiser and was name-ship of that class. She served in
most theatres of naval operations during the last war, especially in the
Mediterranean and later, with the Home Fleet, on those notorious Arctic
convoys. She was finally broken-up in 1958, having been paid-off into
the Reserve in 1947.
Scylla,
however, originally designed to carry the same 5.25 inch D. P. guns as
Dido
– same class – was actually fitted with eight H. A. 4.5 inch
open-breached guns. Nevertheless, she was also a true anti-aircraft
cruiser though known as ‘The Toothless Terror` thereafter.
Perhaps most notably, the redoubtable Rear-Admiral Robert Burnett flew
his flag in
Scylla
during the morale restoring Convoy PQ18 out of Loch Ewe in
September 1942 to North Russia after the fiasco of Convoy PQ17 a couple
of months earlier. She also took part in the invasion of North Africa,
the Salerno landings and was Admiral Vain's flagship during the
Normandy invasion in June 1944 when she was mined. Never fully repaired,
Scylla
was used for ship target trails in 1948 and was finally broken-up at
Barrow in 1950.
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