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    I think it is to be preserved in the museum at Halifax, not too sure whether it will be restored or just conserved.
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    Thank you all for commenting . Haven’t been doin much lately. Did this book cover for a friend. The original was taken to Canada by RCN Minesweeper along with a rare Corvette's skiff , discovered in the boat shed in Portsmouth Dock yard
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    HMS Gentian
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    HMS Codrington at Dunkirk. Done this afternoon, Commission for a guy who's father was evacuated aboard her w/c A4
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    A Dog and Vosper 16" X 12" Watercolour
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    Thames Some river traffic. w/c 6" X 4"
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    Thank you both for commenting. I tend to 'build' a painting as I go, the HDML came along to fill the fore ground still got some smoke and Balloons for the town. The world was coal burning in those days, so the pic, as is, is not really true. I was born and brought up in Edinburgh, which was nick named 'Auld Reekie' .
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    Mersey Return Two Flowers and an HDML W/C 14" X 10"
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    Today's trip. HMCS Prince Rupert river class
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    Another little 'un an early Flower in Convoy w/c 6" X 4"
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    Thank you both for commenting. The beauty of my 'little trips' is that it’s easy to come back from. Like being a Grand parent. Nice to have the grandkids, but nice to hand them back. I have been off painting for a while, really only doing the stuff for the 'Lore Museum' in Arkhangelsk. I’ve been told it will become part of a permanent exhibition of the a Russian Arctic Convoys. Jim
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    This afternoon's little trip to the North Atlantic. HMCS Assiniboine. watercolour 6” X 4”
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    Up to the Skipper....... me I’d call in an air strike!
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    Thanks, I enjoy doing them. The Chase This afternoon's adventure . The Chase from my imagination W/C 6” X 4”
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    Try out for a book cover, although the only bit used would be the U boat and Corvette. It illustrates a passage in the book. I don’t like the back ground . I'll do another, just the ‘portrait' bit this time.
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    'Royal Yaucht' Gothic passing the Needles watercolour 14" X 10"
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    Thank you for your comments and words of encouragement. My paintings seem to go in trends. I was heavily 'into' the Bolitho books, which lead to me trying to research Dockyard ancillary craft ( didn’t find a lot but led to the Stepping the foremast pic). so I did several paintings based on the Napoleonic period . The Bucklers Hard one is based on a model I remember seeing. I am presently back on Arctic Convoy stuff in relation to the 80th anniversary of the arrival of the first Russian Convoy in Arkhangelsk, and the 'Marina Raskova' disaster. My wife and I have been invited to take part, in conjunction with an exhibition of a selection of my paintings at the Arkhangelsk Local Lore Museum. Unfortunately due to several reasons, not least Corona Virus, we won’t be able to take part. However I take it as an honour to be asked. Jim
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    Third in the 'Marina Raskova' series. Minesweeper T114 torpedoed with heavy loss of life. W/C 14” X 10”
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    Soviet Catalina sighting a lifeboat from 'Marina Raskova' and two minesweepers, sunk in the Kara Sea with heavy losses. w/c 16” X 11”
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    Agree variable depth Sonar, our A/S Frigates had a similar arrangement. Jim
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    Gun Line This was a commission for a gentleman in America, whose father served in both ships. Shore bombardment Vietnam. USS O'Brien and USS Taussig in the background. Worth looking up O'Brien, she had quite an illustrious career. w/c 16" X 11"
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    I was asked by Valentina Golycheva if I could do a painting of the attack on Convoy BD-5 - 12 August, 1944: The Marina Raskova was a soviet cargo ship that was torpedoed and damaged in the Kara Sea by U-365 (commander Kapitänleutnant H.Wedemeyer) while heading from Molotovsk to Kara's naval base at Port Dikson to supply food, technical equipment relief personnel and their families. The merchant ship was being escorted by three minesweepers from the 6. Minesweeper Division, and two of them were also sunk by the German submarine (T-118 and T-114). Marina Raskova was sunk by a coup de grâce the day after. Of the 632 men Women and Children on the three ships, 373 were lost and only 259 were rescued. Valentina's Father was among those killed. A little known event among the the the many tragedies during the war at sea in the Arctic Convoys. It is well worth looking into the story of Convoy BD-5 and subsequent expedition in 2015 to find and honour the remains of those who did not return Valentina Golysheva is well known in connection with Russian Arctic Convoy associations and Rememberance events in Russia and UK. She is Associate Professor, PhD Director of the British Centre Department of English School of Social Sciences and Humanities and International Communications Northern ( Arctic) Federal University (NARFU) Arkhangelsk
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    I think there were only about 5 built, and they mostly operated in the Middle East. However no doubt they were test flown in the area.
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    Up date, put in a Short S17 'Kent' Flying boat.
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    1956, I left school, joined Merchant Navy, trained as a Catering boy at the TS Dolphin in Leith. Joined my first ship Edenwood at Ellesmere Port. Ballast to Casablanca for Phosphate for Bo'ness on the Firth of Forth. On the return trip we stopped off to 'swing the Compass' off Inchkeith. The Compass Adjuster was T.C. Lauder of Leith. I was sent up to the bridge with tea and sandwiches for him. Not the last time I was to meet Tommy Lauder. Several ships, sea miles and years later, now in the RN, I met the girl who was eventually to be my wife. When I met her Family her Dad was the same TC Lauder Nautical Optician and Compass Adjuster I had met that day on Edenwood. It will be our 60th wedding anniversary this year. The painting is Edenwood off Inchkeith with the Pilot Boat (as I remember it ) alongside and my future Father in Law climbing aboard.

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