R.M.S. Titanic 1912
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With this painting I have captured the moment the R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg this is the result of much research, it is inspired by the most recent breakthrough which suggests a weather anomaly may have made bad conditions even worse that fateful night. It now looks likely Titanic had sailed into a mirage situation where the horizon was elevated above the iceberg; this was caused by warm air coming into contact with cold, making any chance of seeing the burg in time to turn impossible. This is not the final answer on what happened and it is impossible for us to know exactly what happened but what we do know for sure is that an iceberg sent the finest of Edwardian engineering to the bottom of the Atlantic with huge loss of life.
Size 16”-12” 40cm-30cm
R.M.S. Queen Mary 1950
Price £150
The Queen Mary was the high water mark of the conventional ocean liner she incorporated everything learned over the years and in many people’s opinion was the greatest of all the liners. Unfortunately she could not outrun time, the advent of the jet finished the transatlantic service as a profit making business and one by one the liners of the day paid off for good, in her final years of service the Queen Mary often sailed with more crew than passengers. Fortunately the Cunard line didn’t give up completely they evolved with the time and realised that while people now used the jet to get to and from work, there was a section of society which wanted to sail for pleasure, today 2015 a new Queen sails the seas The Queen Mary 2 the one and only true trans Atlantic liner which has taken advantage of this market. The former Queen Mary survives in California as a museum a testament to a bygone era.
Size 16”-12” 40cm-30cm
H.M.S. Vanguard and R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth
Price: Please contact the gallery
This painting shows two of Britain’s greatest maritime achievements the H.M.S. Vanguard the last battleship and so the final development of the Dreadnought and the R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth the largest of the conventional ocean liners weighing in at 80,000 tons, sister ship to the Queen Mary. I painted this image in a way which shows their magnificence but the sun setting is a reflection of their own predicament in the world soon they would both be eclipsed by the relentless charge of progress. This painting is available through the Arcs of Fire gallery Falmouth. (Please contact for price)
Size 16”-12” 40cm-30cm
H.M.S. Andromeda F57
Price: SOLD
This ship was a Leander class frigate, one of the most successful designs of the post war Royal navy. The painting shows the ship in her final fit as a sea wolf armed frigate.
Size 40x30cm
H.M.S. Coventry F98
Price: SOLD
This ship remains to date the final H.M.S. Coventry, She was built to replace losses from the Falkland’s war, one of these losses happened to be H.M.S. Coventry D118 a type 42 destroyer. H.M.S. Coventry F98 was a batch 2 type 22 frigate, she was armed with sea wolf and exocet missiles, later ships of this class would be armed with a traditional gun in place of the exocets. unfortunately she did not serve anywhere near her full lifespan, being withdrawn from service early in a defence review and sold to Romania.
Size 70x100cm