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The Channel Dash by Ivan Berryman. (PC) February 1942 and Viz. Admiral Ciliaxs mighty Scharnhorst leads her sister Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen up the English Channel during Operation Cerberus, their daring breakout from the port of Brest on the French Atlantic coast to the relative safety of Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbuttel. All three ships survived what became known as the Channel Dash, not without damage, but the operation proved a huge propaganda success for Germany and a crushing embarrassment for the British. A number of torpedo boats are in attendance, including Kondor and Falke and the Z class destroyer Friedrich Ihn in the distance. |
Evacuation Dunkirk by Randall Wilson (PC) With the harbour under attack, HMS Express casts off having embarked troops of the British Expeditionary force (B.E.F.) Leaving with her are the trawlers, which were part of the small boat armada which played such a major part in the evacuation of Dunkirk. |
The Chase, 27th May 1941 by Randall Wilson. (PC) HMS King George V and HMS Rodney chase down the crippled German battleship, Bismarck, and within hours they will go into action. |
Return the Victor, HMS Duke of York entering Scapa Flow by Randall Wilson. (PC) HMS Duke of York passes Heaven gate, Scapa Flow, on her return from the battle of North Cape. Following astern is HMS Belfast and HMS Jamaica. HMS Meteor is already at anchor to the left of the painting. |
USS Yorktown at the Battle of Midway by Anthony Saunders (PC) USS Yorktown seen accompanied by her destroyers including USS Hammann shown under attack by Japanese Torpedo Bombers (Kates) during the battle of Midway. It was in this action that USS Yorktown was lost. |
Battle of the Denmark Straits by Randall Wilson. (PC) With salvos landing close, the Bismarck with Prinz Eugen is shown loosing off the salvo that destroyed HMS Hood. |
Tribute to the Royal Navy Trawler Crews - HMS Arab by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Having departed the Namsen Fjord in Norway, on a course home to England across the North Sea, HMS Arab was intercepted by a Heinkel He.115 and ordered to sail due east or be attacked. His orders ignored, the German pilot began a series of passes over the trawler, raking the small vessel with continuous fire from both of its guns. The gallant crew of the Arab returned fire with all Lewis and Oerlikon guns blazing, the Heinkel being mortally wounded as it made a low pass across the bow of Arab, finally plunging into the sea some two miles astern of the trawler who continued, without further incident, to her destination at Scapa. |
HMS Valiant and HMS Phoebe at Alexandria, 1941 by Ivan Berryman (PC) A pair of 272 Squadron Bristol Beaufighters roar over the extensively rebuilt battleship HMS Valiant as she lies at anchor at Alexandria late in 1941, accompanied by the cruiser HMS Phoebe and Valiants sister ship HMS Queen Elizabeth (in the extreme distance) |
Bismarck Replies to HMS Hood by Ivan Berryman. (PC) The mighty Bismarck returns fire to the fast-approaching HMS Hood at the start of a battle that would see both adversaries tragically sunk. The Bismarck would later be attacked by Swordfish aircraft from HMS Ark Royal, damaging her stearing and allowing her to be caught by the British battleships Rodney and King George V. The once proud German battleship would be ruthlessly pounded into a twisted and burning wreck and finally finished by HMS Dorsetshire with torpedoes at around 10:30 hours on the morning of May 27th 1941. HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Maori combed the area of the sinking for survivors, between them picking up a total of 110 out of an original complement of 2,300. |
Last Man Away by Ivan Berryman. (PC) The remarkable Fairey Swordfish served with distinction throughout WWII, despite being nothing short of an anachronism. Its dated appearance belied a solid, workmanlike airframe that provided a stable platform from which to launch torpedoes against enemy shipping, the venerable 'Stringbag' sending a greater tonnage of Axis shipping to the bottom than any other allied aircraft in the Second World War. A Mk.II is shown taking off from HMS Ark Royal early in 1941. |
Dawn Departure by Ivan Berryman. (PC) A Type VIIC U-Boat slips quietly toward the open sea from her pen at Lorient, France in 1942. |
USS Baltimore and Saratoga in the Pacific by Anthony Saunders (PC) In February 1944, USS Baltimore and Saratoga make up part of the formidable Task Force 58, forcing their way through the central pacific to attack the Japanese bases in the Marshal Islands in support of Operation Flintlock. |
MTB107 by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Commanded by Lord John Cameron, MTB107 took part in Operation Dynamo - the evacuation of Dunkirk in the first week of June 1940. Working with the destroyer HMS Vivacious, the Vosper Thornycroft experimental Motor Torpedo Boat delivered blockships overnight into June 3rd, partially blocking the channel of the port of Dunkirk. The next night, MTB107 worked with HMS Shikari to deliver two more blockships to complete the blocking of the channel. A third blockship was sunk in collision en-route, MTB107 picking up seven of the crew. |
On the Step by Ivan Berryman. (PC) The mainstay of the Royal Navy's Coastal Forces fleet from 1941, the 72-foot Vosper MTBs were among the fastest and most successful ever built. With their three Packard 1400hp engines and bigger fuel tanks, these boats could reach speeds of up to 39 knots with a maximum range of 400 miles. Armament varied from boat to boat, but those depicted are fitted with the standard 21-inch torpedo tubes and a twin .5 inch MkV Vickers machine gun mounting. Crew was typically two officers and eleven ratings. |
USS Hornet, Eye of the Storm by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Late October 1942 in the waters east of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Santa Cruz saw the sinking of the US carrier Hornet, in what proved to be the last major carrier battle of the South Pacific theatre. |
HMS Indefatigable by Randall Wilson. (PC) British Fleet Carrier HMS Indefatigable while serving with the Pacific Fleet comes under attack by kamikaze aircraft which scored one hit causing only superficial damage. |
Prinz Eugen by Ivan Berryman (PC) The heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen slips quietly through the waters of Kiel Harbour as one of her own Arado Ar.196s flies overhead. In the background; Bismarck, wearing her Baltic camouflage, is alongside taking on supplies. |
Invisible Enemy by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Perhaps among the bravest of those serving within the Regia Marina in WW2, the crews of the Italian SLCs (Siluro a Lavita Corsa, or Slow-Running Torpedoes) carried out some of the most daring submarine raids of the war. At 23ft in length and with a maximum speed of just 4 knots, the Maiali (or Pigs, as they were known, due to their lack of maneuverability) frequently delivered their 300kg warheads direct to their targets with devastating results, as when three Italian SLCs sank the British battleships HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth as well as a tanker in Alexandria Harbour on 19th December 1941. Here an SLC has cut its way through the torpedo netting, just one of the many hazards encountered on these highly dangerous covert operations. |
Arctic guardian - USS Washington by Anthony Saunders. (PC) In the spring of 1942, USS Washington was the first of Americas fast battleship fleet to participate in combat operations when she was briefly assigned to the Royal Navy. On 28th June 1942, together with HMS Duke of York, HMS Victorious and an accompanying cruiser and destroyer force, she formed part of the distant covering force to convoy PQ17, bound for Russia. In the Pacific later that same year, she became the only modern US battleship to engage an enemy capital ship, sinking the Japanese battlecruiser Kirishima. |
Operation Rheinubung by Randall Wilson. (PC) Bismarck anchored at No.5 buoy takes on main armament ammo in Gottenhaven, before sailing to Norway and the Atlantic. |
Emden and Blucher by Randall Wilson. (PC) Emden and Blucher arriving at Schweinamund to depart the next day for Oslo. |
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