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World War One Naval Art


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Naval art prints of World War One of Battleships, Cruisers, Destroyers and Submarine art by naval artists Randall Wilson, Anthony Saunders, and Ivan Berryman, published by Cranston Fine Arts.


German Navy - Battle of Jutland - Battle of Coronel - W L Wyllie Art

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The Collier Thordis About to Ram a German Submarine by Allan Stewart (P)


The Collier Thordis About to Ram a German Submarine by Allan Stewart (P)
One edition.
£25.00

Kapitanleutnant zur See Friedrich Christiansen by Ivan Berryman.


Kapitanleutnant zur See Friedrich Christiansen by Ivan Berryman.
8 of 9 editions available.
£2.70 - £500.00

SMS Lutzow at the Opening of the Battle of Jutland  by Anthony Saunders


SMS Lutzow at the Opening of the Battle of Jutland by Anthony Saunders
6 of 7 editions available.
£2.20 - £500.00


Iron Duke in Pentland Firth by W L Wyllie.


Iron Duke in Pentland Firth by W L Wyllie.
One edition.
£25.00

Picket Boats, Trawlers and Battleships in Scapa Flow by W L Wyllie.


Picket Boats, Trawlers and Battleships in Scapa Flow by W L Wyllie.
One edition.
£20.00

SMS Derfflinger By Randall Wilson.


SMS Derfflinger By Randall Wilson.
7 editions.
£2.20 - £2900.00


Mission Completed by Robert Barbour.


Mission Completed by Robert Barbour.
3 editions.
£35.00 - £950.00

Peaceful Anchorage by Robert Taylor


Peaceful Anchorage by Robert Taylor
3 editions.
£150.00 - £275.00

HMS Pegasus by Ivan Berryman.


HMS Pegasus by Ivan Berryman.
7 of 8 editions available.
£2.70 - £500.00


Battle of Jutland by Charles Dixon.


Battle of Jutland by Charles Dixon.
2 editions.
£35.00 - £35.00

Tribute to William F Dickson by Ivan Berryman.


Tribute to William F Dickson by Ivan Berryman.
8 editions.
£2.70 - £1100.00

Brandenburg D.1 by Ivan Berryman.


Brandenburg D.1 by Ivan Berryman.
8 of 9 editions available.
£2.70 - £500.00


Battle of the Dogger Bank 1915 by Randall Wilson.


Battle of the Dogger Bank 1915 by Randall Wilson.
7 editions.
£2.20 - £2700.00

Kapitanleutnant Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere, U-35 by Ivan Berryman.


Kapitanleutnant Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere, U-35 by Ivan Berryman.
6 editions.
£2.70 - £950.00

Royal Oak, Acasta, Benbow, Superb, and Canada in Action by W L Wyllie.


Royal Oak, Acasta, Benbow, Superb, and Canada in Action by W L Wyllie.
2 editions.
£18.00 - £26.00


RMS Aquitania (1914) Leaving the Mersey by E. D. Walker.


RMS Aquitania (1914) Leaving the Mersey by E. D. Walker.
One edition.
£36.00

SMS Derfflinger by Ivan Berryman. (PC)


SMS Derfflinger by Ivan Berryman. (PC)
One edition.
£2.70

Battle of the Falkland Islands by Randall Wilson.


Battle of the Falkland Islands by Randall Wilson.
7 editions.
£2.20 - £3000.00


Fast and Furious by Stan Stokes.


Fast and Furious by Stan Stokes.
One edition.
£35.00

Nurnberg Sinking by W L Wyllie.


Nurnberg Sinking by W L Wyllie.
One edition.
£20.00

The Last of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau by W L Wyllie.


The Last of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau by W L Wyllie.
One edition.
£20.00


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The Collier Thordis About to Ram a German Submarine by Allan Stewart (P)

At about 9.30 am on Sunday February 28th 1915 while the collier Thordis, commanded by Captain John William Bell, was steaming down the Channel, the periscope of a submarine was sighted to starboard. Captain Bell at once came on deck, stopped his ship. The submarine slowly moved across the bows of the Thordis to a position 30 or 40 yards away on her portside. A moment later the track of a torpedo was seen. When it had almost reached the vessel, a wave lifted her stern clear, and the torpedo passed harmlessly beneath. The Thordis immediately closed in on the submarine. There followed a crash, then a scrapping noise, and the submarine sank to the bottom. For being the first merchant vessel to sink a submarine, a Money Prize was distributed among the Captain and crew of the Thordis. Captain Bell also received the DSC, and was given a commission as Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve.


Kapitanleutnant zur See Friedrich Christiansen by Ivan Berryman.

During a patrol on 6th July 1918, Christiansen spotted a British submarine on the surface of the Thames Estuary. He immediately turned and put his Hansa-Brandenburg W.29 floatplane into an attacking dive, raking the submarine C.25 with machine gun fire, killing the captain and five other crewmen. This victory was added to his personal tally, bringing his score to 13 kills by the end of the war, even though the submarine managed to limp back to safety. Christiansen survived the war and went on to work as a pilot for the Dornier company, notably flying the giant Dornier Do.X on its inaugural flight to New York in 1930. He died in 1972, aged 93.


SMS Lutzow at the Opening of the Battle of Jutland by Anthony Saunders

Admiral Hippers flagship SMS Lutzow followed by Derfflinger and Seydlitz. Also seen in the painting are Moltke and Von der Tann.


Iron Duke in Pentland Firth by W L Wyllie.

Two copies available


Picket Boats, Trawlers and Battleships in Scapa Flow by W L Wyllie.

Two copies available


SMS Derfflinger By Randall Wilson.

SMS Derfflinger at anchor at Kiel, 1918. Astern is SMS Hindenburg.


Mission Completed by Robert Barbour.

7th June 1915. HM Submarine E.11 has just surfaced off Cape Helles at the entrance to the Dardanelles Straits. She has just safely negotiated passage through various minefields from the sea of marmora where she destroyed nine Turkish ships, and reached as far as Constantinople. In the background is the destroyer HMS Grampus and the beached freighter SS River Clyde.


Peaceful Anchorage by Robert Taylor

Ships of the East Asiatic Squadron at anchor in a Pacific Island bay prior to the outbreak of hostilities in 1914. The ships are, left to right, light cruisers Nurnberg and Dresden, cruiser Gneisenau and von Spees flagship Scharnhorst.


HMS Pegasus by Ivan Berryman.

The last seaplane carrier built for the Admiralty, HMS Pegasus was launched in 1917 and benefited from all the lessons learned from her predecessors, possessing a flying-off platform forward, served by twin derricks, and a hangar and cranes aft, capable of carrying up to nine aircraft. She is shown here with one of her Short 184s (N9290) about to take off, whilst a similar aircraft is preparing to be lowered into the water in the background.


Battle of Jutland by Charles Dixon.

A line of Royal Navy battleships engage the German High Seas Fleet during the Battle of Jutland.


Tribute to William F Dickson by Ivan Berryman.

19th July 1918 - the Tondern raid, the first raid in history carried out from an aircraft carrier. Captain Dickson is shown in his Sopwith Camel 2F.1 departing HMS Furious just after 3am, and along with 5 other aircraft would successfully attack the German Zeppelin sheds at Tondern in Denmark. They destroyed two airships in their hangar, and the entire base was subsequently abandoned. 7 aircraft began the raid : one turned back with engine trouble, three landed in Denmark afterwards while another failed to return to the British fleet. Only Dickson and Captain B Smart ditched in the sea near the British ships and were recovered. For this raid, Dickson was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He later moved to HMS Revenge and HMS Queen Elizabeth then flew on HMS Argus and was a test pilot at the Royal Aircraft Establishment. In World War Two he helped to plan the Allied invasion of occupied Europe. He remained in the RAF post war, retiring in 1959 as Marshal of the Royal Air Force. He died in 1987.


Brandenburg D.1 by Ivan Berryman.

Designed by the great Ernst Heinkel, the diminutive D.1 was an essential stop-gap that provided the Austro-Hungarian pilots with a front line fighter until they were able to re-equip with Albatros scouts in the Summer of 1917. This little aircraft performed well and was generally held in high regard by its pilots, although it did have some shortcomings, namely that forward vision was extremely limited and the Schwarzloses gun was completely concealed in the overwing pod that made it inaccessible in the air. Most unusual of all was its interplane strut arrangement, designed to reduce drag, which gave it the nicknames Starstrutter or Spider. These examples are shown passing above the German cruiser Derfflinger.


Battle of the Dogger Bank 1915 by Randall Wilson.

HMS Tiger is shown under full steam.


Kapitanleutnant Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere, U-35 by Ivan Berryman.

U-35 under the command of Kapitanleutnant Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere, the all time most successful u-boat captain sinking 194 ships, many of which were sunk by the u-boats 88mm deck gun.
Kapitanleutnant Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere commanded U-35 from 13th November 1915 to 16th March 1918. His most successful patrols were in April / May 1916, where in a 5 week patrol he sunk 23 ships , and in July / August 1916 where in a 4 week patrol he sunk 54 ships. In total he made 15 patrols.


Royal Oak, Acasta, Benbow, Superb, and Canada in Action by W L Wyllie.

Two copies available


RMS Aquitania (1914) Leaving the Mersey by E. D. Walker.

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SMS Derfflinger by Ivan Berryman. (PC)

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Battle of the Falkland Islands by Randall Wilson.

Admiral von Spees Flagship SMS Scharnhorst leads SMS Gneisenau in the opening stages of engaging the Royal Naval ships east of the Falklands, 8th December 1914.


Fast and Furious by Stan Stokes.

Thomas Sopwith was a distinguished British aviator who organized the Sopwith Aviation Company. Sopwith produced an aircraft which won the coveted Schneider Trophy race. With the start of WW I, Sopwith Aviation shifted its focus to military aircraft, and was to become one the major suppliers to both the Royal Air Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. In October of 1914 two Sopwith Tabloids flew a 200-mile round trip strike against the airship sheds at Dusseldorf and Cologne. The Sopwith Strutter firmly entrenched Sopwith as a producer of quality-built aircraft. The Strutter was a precursor of the Sopwith Pup, which would serve as the Royal Navys first carrier aircraft. The first production Pup was delivered to the Royal Navy in 1916. Most Pups were powered by a 80-HP Le Rhone radial engine, which gave the Pup a top speed of 115-MPH and an endurance of three hours. Many Navy Pups were modified to utilize a tripod mounted Lewis gun which could be fired forward or upwards through a cutout in the upper wing. Sopwith Pups were also utilized on battlecruisers. In fact, a Pup launched from the HMS Yarmouth downed the Zeppelin L.23 in August of 1917. The Royal Navys HMS Furious was the first dedicated aircraft carrier in the world. The Furious was initially laid down as a battlecruiser, but the design was modified during construction to include a flying deck forward of the main bridge. This configuration allowed aircraft to be launched as the Furious steamed into the wind. An attempt at recovery by having aircraft side slip on to the deck proved ineffective with one of the early attempts resulting in the death of the pilot, Squadron Commander E. H. Dunning, who had made the worlds first successful carrier landing on a ship underway only days earllier. The Royal Navy decided to further modify the Furious by adding a second deck aft of the bridge. The fore and aft decks were connected by a narrow ramp on either side of the funnel and bridge, and this permitted aircraft to be to moved between the two decks. Sets of longitudinal wires were set across the aft deck, and were designed to catch the skids of the Sopwith Pups during landings. Recovering aircraft was still tricky, and a rope barrier was erected aft of the mainmast to prevent aircraft which overshot from crashing into the superstructure of the ship. The first carrier-based naval air strike in history was carried out against the Zeppelin hangars at Tondern by the Furious on July 19, 1918. Seven Sopwith Camels, each carrying two 50-pound bombs were utilized for this mission. This important moment in the history of naval aviation is captured magnificently in Stan Stokes highly detailed painting entitled Fast and Furious.


Nurnberg Sinking by W L Wyllie.

At the end of the Battle of the Falkland Islands, while boats from HMS Kent went to pick up survivors of the Nurnberg, the German cruiser hauled right over on her side and sank. The remaining crew were a brave lot - one man stood aloft and held the German ensign waving in his hands til the ship went under.


The Last of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau by W L Wyllie.

During the battle of the Falkland Islands, both the German ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were sunk after battling with the Royal Navy battleships HMS Invincible and HMS Inflexible and heavy cruiser HMS Carnarvon.

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