Акварели Джима Рея (Jim Rae) 11 часть
1. In 1917 the US sent USS’s New York, Texas, Oklahoma, Nevada, Arizona, Arkansas, Wyoming, Florida and Utah to join the grand fleet. They returned to the US in 1918 Seen here passing the Bass Rock in the Forth Estuary
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3. HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH off Rosyth WW1
4. HMS ENGADINE just prior to Jutland, a-c is based on the Short 185, they tried a few different engines around then
5. Just a wee reminder that today is the 100th anniversary of GB entering WW1 R Class Battleships
6. Drifter base at Lyness, Scapa Flow in WW1
7. Convoy PQ 14 assembling at Loch Ewe in the north of Scotland, about to leave for Russia. Corvette HMS Campanula in the fore ground and cruiser HMS Norfolk
8. Based on King George V dock London in the 50s-60s
9. during a moderately successful strike involving five RAN aircraft against a railway tunnel, a Firefly was shot down 75 miles (121 km) inland, deep inside North Korean territory
10. Today’s painting and the poem that inspired it ,courtesy of Mr Rudyard Kipling
11. This afternoons effort, not ships this time Moira, ..........boats! German E Boats of WW 2
12. Another Aurora, HMS Mullet ‘Fish Class’ anti Submarine Trawler in Ice
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15. Another similar.Convoy in pack ice with Northern Lights ‘somewhere in the Barents Sea’
16. In the same Convoy as Beaverford and Jervis Bay, HX84, was the tanker ‘San Demetrio’. Hit by several shells from Admiral Scheer, she was set on fire, abandoned by the crew, she drifted all night
17. SS Beaverford, or ‘Scheer Carnage’ 5th Nov 1940
18. Up river from the last one Konigsberg in her Lair
19. HM ships Severn and Mersey maneuver into position in the Rufiji River in East Africa during the action against the German Light Cruiser Konigsberg in WW1
20. HMS Vengeance 25th May 1851. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert about to visit second rate Ship of the Line Vengeance off Spit Head in the Solent
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23. Could have called it Wing and a Prayer, or D.U.K.W.s
24. Small watercolour shortly after the D Day landings and before the Mulberries Made up from several contemporary photos The RN Beach Master’s position
25. HMS Belfast about to open fire in the Barrage at the start of the D Day landings, along the line are the Dutch ship Flores, Landing HQ Ship Bulolo, Orion, Emerald Argonaut and Ajax. Diadem is off canvas to the left
26. Early morning in South East England , Sprit Sail Barges and Oyster Smacks
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34. As it’s night time, heres one of a Swordfish returning late
35. A commission for a lady whoes Grandfather served in these ships,L to R Iron Duke, Galatea, Icarus, Centurion and in the distance Indefatigable, in which he lost his life at Jutland
36. Seascape with Captain Cook. Donaldson Line ‘Letitia’ became the Trooper ‘Empire Brent’ and later, as seen here, the migrant ship Captain Cook
37. RNZN Ships and Wasp Helicopter from the 1960’s, All long gone now, but there will be quite a few crew still here who will remember them.
38. RAF Hudson drops Airborne lifeboat to downed crew
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40. The Solent.HMS Agamemnon passing HMS Neptune and the Hospital shp Wandilla (Adalaide Steamship Company)
41. USS Currytuck CGC Half Moon and LST 1166. Two P5M Marlins, a Sky Crane and a Sea Knight
42. Here is what I I was doing this afternoon. Will finish it tomorrow.
43. Here is what I I was doing this afternoon. Will finish it tomorrow. 2
44. Schooner passing dispatches at sea
45. Schooner and Trawler off St Abbs Head On the East Coast of Scotland
46. Entrance to Portsmouth harbour with a First Rate Line of Battle ship and Frigate passing a ‘Two Decker’ doing some rigging maintainance.
47. Hit and run at Loch Ewe. A continuation of the ‘hit and run’ at the Aultbea Hotel painting. The Ju88 has passed over the ships and is climbing out over the road to Cove. Still some finishing to do
48. Heinkel Hk115 Seaplane off the east coast of Scotland. The a-c is flying past Crail where the runways of the Naval Air Station are reflecting the moonlight. It is returning to its base after laying mines off the Tay Estuary.
49. This afternoon’s painting. Armed Trawler ‘Sanson’ and the Soviet Tanker ‘Taupse’ in a North Atlantic Convoy
50. Ships gather in Hvalfjiord in Iceland for the onward journey to Northern Russia. Among the ships. l-r Convoy Rescue Ship Rathlin, VW Destroyer Vanoc, Corvette Eyebright and one of the ‘Ranger’ class RFA
