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Cranston Fine Arts  Naval Art World War One Ships HMS Conqueror to HMS Queen Elizabeth  HMS Glorious |
[UP] - HMS Conqueror - HMS Defence - HMS Duke of York - HMS Engadine - HMS Erin - HMS Espiegle - HMS Furious - HMS Glorious - HMS Highflyer - HMS Inflexible - HMS Invincible - HMS Iron Duke - HMS Irresistible - HMS K17 - HMS Kent - HMS Laertes - HMS Lance - HMS Lapwing - HMS Laurel - HMS Lennox - HMS Leonidas - HMS Lion - HMS Malaya - HMS Mantis - HMS Mersey - HMS Monarch - HMS Nestor - HMS Orion - HMS Pegasus (1897) - HMS Pegasus (1917) - HMS Princess Royal - HMS Queen Elizabeth |
| HMS Glorious Naval Art Prints, Paintings and Drawings |
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HMS Glorious by Ivan Berryman. HMS Glorious flying off a Fairey Swordfish at sunset with HMS Ardent off to Starboard. |
Engage by Randall Wilson. HMS Glorious and HMS Repulse fire opening salvos against the German cruiser Pillau at the Heligoland Bight 17th November 1917. |
Moment of Truth by Keith Woodcock. The print depicts the moment as the first Hurricane of 46 squadron of the Royal Air Force, piloted by Sqn Ldr Kenneth Cross, without arrestor hooks or wires approaches the ill-fated carrier HMS Glorious. during the evacuation of Norway in June 1940. Bing later said We showed them they were wrong. The Fleet Air Arm pilots were delighted saying Marvelous bloody marvelous, now we will get them too. All had landed safely by 4.30am on June 8th. |
Glorious and Furious Riding out a Gale in the Forth by W L Wyllie. Two copies available |
Carrier Glorious - The Life and Death of an Aircraft Carrier by John Winton. One of the most extraordinary stories of human folly in World War Two. June 1940: the German battle-cruiser Scharnhorst and her sister ship Gneisenau were in the Arctic Sea, steaming north to intercept Allied convoys evacuating British, French and Polish troops from Norway, when they sighted the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious, escorted by two destroyers, steering for Scapa Flow. In a ferocious gun battle lasting over an hour, all the British ships were sunk, and more than 1500 men lost their lives. The few survivors were not found for three days. Glorious had left the main convoy to proceed independently. She was not flying an air reconnaissance patrol for her own safety. And she had not received any warning from British intelligence that German battle-cruisers were in the area. Drawing on Admiralty records and the testimony of those who served on Glorious, John Winton reveals the incredible human folly that led almost inexorably to this tragic end, against a background of one of the most disastrous campaigns of the Second World War for Britain and her allies. |
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