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    HMShips Starling and Wild Goose Set out for another U boat hunt While a Norwegian Tanker heads upstream With another cargo to help 'The Few' to keep flying. 14” X 9” watercolour.
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    AMC 'Saxonia' and Hospital ship 'Wandilla' On the river Mersey during WW1. The ship with the Red Funnel is Saxonia in her civilian dress. W/C 14” X 10”
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    Morning breeze clearing a fog bank in an estuary early 20th century W/C 14” X 10” Jim
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    Sunday afternoon lock down session. Samson Class Fleet Tug Watercolour 10”X 7.5” Jim
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    White Star Liner Corinthic in 'Dazzle' camouflage Watercolour 14” X 10”
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    AMC Otranto Afternoon Quickie. L to R HM Ships Glasgow, Otranto and Good Hope. Just before the Battle of Coronel W/C 14” X 10”
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    I read some Taffrail books, but that was many, many years ago. jim
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    Royal Navy Brig HMS Black Joke intercepts a Spanish 'Slaver' off the west coast of Africa. 'Black Joke', probably built in Baltimore, was captured by the British and became part of the 'West Africa' squadron suppressing the Slave Trade. She went on to become one of the most successful ships in the Squadron, freeing hundreds of Slaves. Watercolour 14” X 10” Jim
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    Thanks. It’s the smaller ships I prefer, Battleships don’t do a lot other than fire guns. Destroyers down, have fun and go to places that BBs don’t. jim
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    HMS GLENAVON. Paddle Minesweepers head out for the morning 'sweep' passed a 'Bar Boat' working on moorings. W/C 15” X10” Jim
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    Thoroughbred to Carthorse Once a crack Tea Clipper 'Cutty Sark' seen here as 'Ferreira' a Barquentine in Portuguese service. Now restored and preserved at Greenwich on the River Thames w/c 14” X 10”
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    Wouldn’t know how to. Anyway it would just be the same as on here, where you can see them all here for free! jim
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    Thanks, couldn’t afford it. Jim
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    Afternoon Quickie Cutty Sark drying her sails. In the days before becoming a tourist attraction she was a hard working vessel in the Tea and wool trade. 19” X 7” Jim
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    Fear Nothing HMS Dreadnought docking assisted by Tugs 14” X 10” watercolour Jim
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    Minesweeping Trawlers 'Ben Dearg' and 'Cardiff Castle' return to Base. W/C 11” X 9”
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    Contact HMS Alisma drops a pattern of Depth charges w/c 11” X 9” Jim
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    No, the Trafalgar one was just a joke. Thanks for the above post. I'm not really a ‘Watercolourist' in the proper traditional way . I paint with watercolour paints, yes I use the transparency at times but for white, I use Gouache. I know 'zilch' about the technical side of things, all the fancy names for different colours. To me, I use for eg. dark blue, middle and light blue. . I paint using what I call my 'Spitfire' method. If it looks right it probably is. I’m a great believer in drawing. I draw the Subject then 'colour it in. I have the idea for the painting, draw it then paint it, sometimes changing it as I go. As it was here. It was just this afternoon 24hrs after I finished the original that I decided to put in the Swordfish. It was a toss up between it and a Catalina. There is an idea for a Cat. Lurking in my mind. Jim
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    Update +Swordfish with Seaboots
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    Depot ship HMS WOLFE , two T class submarines, a TID Tug and a Rescue Tug W/C 14” X 10”
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    I was emailed the manuscript, which I read. Then discussed by email the scenes to be depicted. Here is my copy of the book
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    'Algerine'. Originally Minesweepers. Most Canadian ones had MS gear removed and replaced with Depth charges, and used as Convoy Escorts. jim
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    Thanks for posting this. ' Been There, Seen the picture. Didn't get the 'T' shirt'. In 2016 I was asked if I could paint a cover and some illustrations for a book being written about the experiencies of a Ships Engineer Cadet on board a Liberty Ship the book 'Liberty's War'. To cut a long story short. The book was launched at the US Merchant Marine Academy, at Kings point. I had the Privilege and Honour to be invited to the event, and to give a short talk about how a retired ex RN Rating from a small village in Fife Scotland came to be there. The cover painting was acquired by USMMA Museum. What more could I ask, one of my paintings among such eminent company. some photos of the cover painting, exhibition and launch.
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    Sorry, been off painting since before Christmas, just one of those things. Here’s the latest based on 'Fort Grahame' and HMS Acute J106
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    HMS Coldstreamer A/S Trawler jim

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