Ship paintings

[Vegaskip]

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”

[Vegaskip]

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.

[Vegaskip]

Castle Class Corvette/Frigate HMNoS Tunsberg Castle. unfortunately didn’t last long in service. She was mined on Dec 12 1944 off Båtsfjord, Norway with th loss of 5 crew.
Watercolour 14” X 9”

[Moab]

Jim; I view your beautiful, thrilling paintings over and over. You’re a superb artist and an equally important Story Teller! Thank you so much for sharing your stories with us...Moab

[Vegaskip]

Thank you. My pleasure to share them with you.

keep safe.
Jim

[Mirabell61]

3 hours ago, Vegaskip said:

Castle Class Corvette/Frigate HMNoS Tunsberg Castle. unfortunately didn’t last long in service. She was mined on Dec 12 1944 off Båtsfjord, Norway with th loss of 5 crew.
Watercolour 14” X 9”

Beautiful paintings Jim,

 

Nils

[Vegaskip]

HMS Valiant refuels a destroyer while under way. Fleet Carrier and two escorts in company 
Watercolour 9.5“ X 7”

Jim

[Vegaskip]

HMS Belfast about to transfer the Admiral to HMS Ocean during the Korean War.
Detail from bigger pic.

jim

[amateur]

And ofcourse: my last like also includes the paintings between this and my previous like

 

Jan

[Vegaskip]

Blockading Brest during the Napoleonic Wars. A Brig brings in a captured French Lugger.
W/C  14” 10”

Edited May 17, 2020 by Vegaskip

[Vegaskip]

Based on HMCS Moncton before conversion to long foc'sl
W/C  9.5” X 6.5”

Jim

[ccoyle]

I have a soft spot for the Flowers ever since building the 1/100 scale Agassiz in card from Modelik, though sadly without the striking Western Approaches camouflage.

[Vegaskip]

RAF Coastal Command Hudson drops an ‘Airborne Lifeboat' to a downed crew somewhere wet! Designed by Uffa Fox, they could be carried by several types of a/c Sorry about quality of photo

w/c 14” X 10”

[M.R.Field]

Absolutely superb paintings, Jim. I am completely uninterested in the subject matter of most, but I would hang any of them on my wall, for the atmosphere and sheer skill. I have never tried to paint anything on an ocean. I've only painted canal subjects as I used to live on a canal boat and had no space for modelmaking.  While we rebuilt our historic wooden ex-working boat we lived in a 10 foot caravan with a small pond behind us. In that pond was an Airborne Lifeboat, but nothing I said to the ignorant yob who owned the yard would result in his raising it.

 

I used to know a chap whose work was used in several magazines of the time, Mike (M.G.) Carter. Your work has all the atmosphere of his work, but is less antiseptic. I love it.

 

Keep on posting.

 

Martin 

[M.R.Field]

As I said, canal mainly, so far.

Martin

[Vegaskip]

Thanks. Alway fancied living on a Narrow Boat.

When I was still at school, (a few years ago) A friend's brother had an Airborne Lifeboat, complete!, bought ‘government surplus'? At that time (1950s) the Breakers Yard at Inverkeithing was selling Ships lifeboats for £1 a foot!
jim

[Vegaskip]

East Coast convoy under air attack. One ship torpedoed, and a couple of near misses 
. At least one He111 won’t be making it back to base
W/C 14” X 10”
Jim

[Roger Pellett]

Re:  Uffa Fox (droppable lifeboat painting)

 

This past August my wife and I ended a spectacular tour of Scotland with a visit to the Royal Yacht Britannia now permanently moored in Leith near Edinburgh.

 

A visit to the yacht provided an unexpectedly personal visit into the lives of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip.  In Prince Phillip’s stateroom, on his bedside table was one of Uffa Fox’s books on yacht design.   Up topside on chocks was a Flying Fifteen sailboat designed by Uffa Fox.  The placard by the boat explained that this was Prince Phillip’s personal sailboat, that he and Uffa often sailed together, and had become personal friends.

 

Roger

[Vegaskip]

I was born and brought up in Leith, and used to love wandering the Docks( you could in those days) l did my MN Training at Leith Nautical College ( TS Dolphin ) Now live in Auchtermuchty, a village about 20 miles in a straight line across the Forth from Britannia Glad you enjoyed your visit 'Haste Ye Back'

Jim

[Roger Pellett]

We’d return tomorrow if it were not for this @#$& virus!  While we saw a lot, including the Tattoo, I’m sure we just scratched the surface.  I’d particularly like to visit the Denny’s ship model towing tank at Dunbarton, now sadly only a museum.

 

Everywhere that we went the people were wonderful!

 

Roger

[Vegaskip]

Glengree (480tons).one of THE ALLIANCE & DUBLIN CONSUMERS GAS CO. coal boats. Supplied Coal from the UK to Dublin for conversation to Gas 
W/C 11” X 8”
Jim

[Vegaskip]

Hill class Trawler HMS Breden  Doing a bit of 'self maintenance' when she got emergency sailing orders. Unfortunately she was lost 8 Feb 1943.
W/C 11” X 9”
Jim 

[Vegaskip]

South of Kerguelene windjammer in the roaring forties.

w/c 14” X 10”

[wefalck]

Love it !

 

The strange thing actually is, that probably very few people would have really seen such a scene, traffic was not that dense.

[Vegaskip]

Precisely. You can do things with a paint brush, that you can’t do with a camera.

As you say there wasn’t much traffic then and even less people with a camera.

Jim

[wefalck]

... and actually, from such a low point in the sea, you don't really want to see this - or may be you are glad, when a ship comes in sight ...

[Moab]

Another beautiful story...Moab

[Vegaskip]

Uruguay Star in the Southern ocean with accompanying Albatross.
W/C 14” X 10”
Jim

[Vegaskip]

Up the Gulf!. Shell tanker 'HATASIA' and local fishing boat.
Watercolour 14” X10”
Jim

[Vegaskip]

Today's effort Orient Steam Navigation Company liner Orion at Aden 
Watercolour 14” X 10”

Jim