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Oil Tanker in the Suez Canal
The third of September is Merchant Navy Day in the UK.
'Lest we Forget'
Most commodities, materials and a good amount of food, reaching the average household, at one time or an other have traveled in a ship. Take for instance your car. The ore, it is made from. The fuel to smelt the ore. The resultant Steel. The chemicals and oil for plastics. Rubber for the tyres. Finally the oil and petrol to make it go to take you to the supermarket for you to buy life’s necessities and luxuries. Most, were transported by Ship, crewed by Merchant Seamen of many nationalities.
Thank you if you have read this far.
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Baron Pentland
BARON PENTLAND SS was a British Cargo Steamer of 3,410 tons built in 1927. On the 19th September 1941 when on route from St John (n.B.) for Hartlepool In Convoy SC-42 as a straggler and carrying a cargo of 1,512 standards lumber she was torpedoed by German submarine U-652. The BARON PENTLAND (Master Alexander Bleasby Campbell) remained afloat due her load of timber despite of a broken back and was torpedoed and sunk by U-372 at 14.33 hours on 19 September. Two crew members were lost. The master, 30 crew members and eight gunners were picked up by HMCS Orillia (k 119) (LtCdr W. Edward S. Briggs) of the 24th Escort Group and landed at Reykjavik. 2 crew lost from a total of 41. A bit of artistic license here, I think the ship had sunk before the crew were rescued but I wanted to show both ships.
W/C 15” X 11”
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- GrandpaPhil, Canute, J11 and 10 others
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- ccoyle, lmagna, Captain Poison and 11 others
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- jud, BETAQDAVE, GrandpaPhil and 8 others
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This is actually the river Clyde. Other similar Convoy assembly points were in the north of Scotland at Loch Ewe. River Forth ( East Coast Convoys for onward escort ) Thames ( for the same ). River Mersey at Liverpool ( Convoys and Battle of Atlantic HQ) obviously they did attack Gourock and the rest of the Clyde area one of the main ship building areas of the UK. They also didn’t have CARRIERS!
Jim
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- paulsutcliffe, davyboy, ccoyle and 14 others
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- paulsutcliffe, lmagna, Javlin and 15 others
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- J11, paulsutcliffe, davyboy and 7 others
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Yes, sometimes.
jim
- lmagna, Edwardkenway, mtaylor and 1 other
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- Edwardkenway, jud, ken@southside and 14 others
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- BLACK VIKING, John Allen, jud and 17 others
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- Canute, Beef Wellington, J11 and 14 others
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- J11, GrandpaPhil, Captain Poison and 15 others
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- John Allen, el cid, J11 and 12 others
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Ship paintings
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'Twerking'
H.M. Armed Trawler King Sol exposes her prop in a drop of ruffers!
Watercolour 10.5 X 7.5 inches
Jim