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Trafalgar: HMS Royal Sovereign Prepares to Break the Line by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Just minutes from opening fire, HMS Royal Sovereign, carrying the flag of Vice-Admiral Lord Cuthbert Collingwood, approaches the Franco-Spanish line at Trafalgar, prior to breaking through and delivering a devastating broadside into the black-painted Santa Ana. Royal Sovereign had already taken terrible punishment as it had approached the enemy line, unable to bring her own guns to bear. Ships depicted, left to right, are: Indomptable (Fr) Rhin (Fr) Santa Ana (Sp) Royal Sovereign (Br) and Fougeux (Fr) |
U-107 by Ivan Berryman. (PC) The German Type IXB U-Boat U-107 completed 13 active patrols between 1941 and 1944, well above the average lifespan for a U-boat during this period. U-107 sunk 39 ships with a total tonnage in excess of 200,000 tons. Shown here under attack from a Sunderland, this would be her ultimate demise. On 18th August 1944, Sunderland EJ150 of No.201 Sqn sunk the U-Boat with depth charges in the Bay of Biscay with the loss of the entire crew. |
USS Independence by Randall Wilson. (PC) USS Independence launches multiple aircraft, RA5C Vigilante from the waist cat, and a Crusader from the bow while deployed in the Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam. |
The Battle of The Dogger Bank by Charles Dixon (PC) The Indomitable towing the damaged battle-cruiser Lion during the Battle of The Dogger Bank on January 24th, 1915. Had the Lion not been damaged by a stray shot during the action, the British victory would have been significantly more decisive and might have prevented the remaining German ships from successfully fleeing behind their mine-fields. Historical book plate published in 1920. |
Dawn Enterprise by Anthony Saunders. (PC) The first light of dawn silhouettes the massive outline of the Yorktown class carrier USS Enterprise, in mid April 1944 she was partnered by the new Essex Class carrier USS Lexington. |
HMS Illustrious and HMS Kenya at Devonport by Ivan Berryman. (PC) HMS Illustrious slips quietly away from the docks at Devonport, Plymouth with the Fiji class cruiser in the middle distance, 1941. |
Gunline Omaha - USS Texas by Randall Wilson (PC) In support of the American landings at Utah and Omaha beaches, the USS Texas slugs it out with German heavy gun emplacements during the D-Day landings. |
Portrait of Admiral Nelson by Chris Collingwood. (PC) Portrait of Admiral Nelson shown in the uniform worn at the Battle of Trafalgar. |
HMS Medway by Ivan Berryman (PC) HMS Medway was the first Royal navy submarine Depot ship that was designed for the purpose from the outset. She is shown here with a quintet of T-class submarines on her starboard side, whilst an elderly L-Class begins to move away having completed replenishment. HMS Medway was sunk on 30th June1940 having been torpedoed by U-372 off Alexandria. Additional colour added to enhance this previously black and white image. |
Deutschland at Baltimore Harbour by Ivan Berryman. (PC) On 9th July 1916, with Captain Paul Koenig in command, the German merchant submarine Deutschland entered Baltimore Harbour after a 16-day crossing of the Atlantic from Bremerhaven on a peaceful trade mission and was greeted by a flotilla of tugs and small sight-seeing vessels. Upon arrival in the bay, the German merchant flag was hoisted and many of her 29 crew appeared on her narrow deck to enjoy the moment. The visit was greeted with considerable controversy at the time, given that Europe was at this time at war with Germany, but this unusual event passed peacefully with Deutschland returning home safely the following month. |
Captain Charles Vane by Chris Collingwood. (PC) Captain Charles Vane was born in 1680, and was an English pirate who preyed upon English and French shipping. Vane began piracy in 1716 and lasted 3 years. Vane captured a Barbados sloop and then a large 12-gun brigantine, which he renamed the Ranger. Vane was among the pirate captains who operated out of the Bohama at the notorious base at New Providence after the colony had been abandoned by the British. His pirate attacks made Captain Charles Vane well known to the Royal Navy and in February of 1718 Vincent Pearse, commander of HMS Phoenix cornered Vane on his ship the Lark. Vane had heard of the recent royal pardons that had been offered to pirates in exchange for a guarantee they would quit plundering, so Vane claimed he had actually been en route to surrender to Pearse and accepted the pardon on the spot, Charle Vane gained his freedom but as soon as he was free of Pearse he ignored the pardon and resumed his pirate ways. Charles Vane was again captured and in 1721 was executed by hanging at Gallows Point, Port Royal, Jamaica on March 29th 1721. |
Scourge of the Atlantic by Ivan Berryman. (PC) The ten German U-Boats of the Type VIIA class operating in the seas around the United Kingdom and Ireland were so deadly in the first part of the war, they were the scourge of the Atlantic. Sinking much Allied merchant shipping in the first months of World War Two, they continued through the 'Happy Time' of the Battle of the Atlantic, where the tally of shipping claimed by U-boats reached a peak, and the crews were regarded as heroes. Famously, U-29 sunk the Royal Navy carrier HMS Courageous on 17th September, the first British warship sunk by German forces in World War Two. By the end of 1940 though, 6 of the boats had been sunk and the remaining 4 were used only for training. In total they had accounted for around 100 vessels sunk, damaged, or captured. |
HMS Ark Royal by Ivan Berryman (PC) HMS Ark Royal after a recent refit, rejoins the fleet in 2001. Additional colour added to enhance this previously black and white image. |
HMS Glorious by Ivan Berryman. (PC) HMS Glorious flying off a Fairey Swordfish at sunset with HMS Ardent off to Starboard. |
USS Ranger by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Two F14 Tomcats of VF-1 pass in close formation over the stern of the veteran USS Ranger (CV-61) |
HMS Javelin at Dunkirk by Ivan Berryman. (PC) HMS Javelin was launched at the John Brown Shipyard at Clydebank on 21st December 1938 and operated with the 5th Destroyer Flotilla under Lord Louis Mountbatten. She distinguished herself during Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Dunkirk, and saved many lives from the sinking SS Abukir on the same mission. Later that year, Javelin came under attack from German torpedoes and gunfire, losing her bow and stern and over 90ft of her length, but she was rebuilt and served well throughout WWII. Finally scrapped at Troon in Scotland in 1949. |
Admirals All by Arthur David McCormick (PC) Part of the classic collection. |
The Battle of the River Plate by Randall Wilson. (PC) Under attack from HMS Ajax, HMS Exeter and HMS Archilles. The German Pocket battleship Graf Spee os shown at speed returning salvos, December 1939. |
HMS Warspite, Shooting from the Hip by Randall Wilson. (PC) HMS Warspite is shown in action during the 2nd battle of Narvik, April 1940. |
ORP Blyskawica at Cowes by Ivan Berryman. (PC) With the iconic hammerhead crane dominating the Cowes skyline ORP Blyskawica slips away from the J S Whites Shipyard where she was built and launched on 1st October 1936. With her sister ship, ORP Grom, both ships were attached to the Royal Navy as part of the Free Polish Forces. While Grom was attacked and sunk in Rombaksfjord in May 1940, Blyskawica returned to Cowes for a refit in the spring of 1942 when, on the night of 4th May she used her own weapons to vigorously defend Cowes during a particularly intense bombardment of the town by the German Luftwaffe, endearing the ship and her brave crew to the townsfolk of both East and West Cowes. ORP Blyskawica survives to this day as a floating museum at the port of Gdynia in Poland. |
Task Force 129 by David Pentland (PC) United States Navy Battleship, USS Nevada (foreground) and cruisers, HMS Glasgow (centre) and USS Quincy assembling in Belfast Lough in preparation for D-Day |
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