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HMS Torbay - Opration Flipper by Ivan Berryman. (PC) In foul weather off the coast of North Africa on the night of 14th November 1941, HMS Torbay deploys men of 11 (Scottish) Commando for an audacious attempt to assassinate German General Erwin Rommel. Named Operation Flipper, the attempt saw 26 men from HMS Torbay join just 8 more from HMS Talisman - the rest trapped aboard by the weather - land 250 miles behind enemy lines in Libya, and march to the headquarters for the attack late on 18th November. While the Commandos made it to the target building, their leader, Lt Col Geoffrey Keyes was killed and they discovered Rommel was not there. Retreating to the landing beach to be picked up by HMS Talisman, they were intercepted by Italian forces and captured facing impossible odds, although a few managed to scatter into the desert and escape. Keyes was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, HMS Torbay survived the war and was scrapped soon afterwards. |
Victory Parade by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Ships of the Falklands Task Force formate following the Argentine surrender in 1982. Nearest is Leander class frigate HMS Andromeda with RFA Brambleleaf in her wake. The Type 22 frigate HMS Brilliant is to the left of the picture, with the carrier HMS Invincible dominating the right. HMS Hermes and her escorts are in the extreme distance. |
Bismarck - Pride of the Kriegsmarine by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Together with her sister, Tirpitz, the Bismarck was Germany's most modern and formidable warship of WWII. Equipped with the very latest in rangefinder technology and festooned with defensive firepower, perhaps her most daunting weapons were the eight 15 inch guns, arranged in four turrets, that were to prove so effective against almost every other ship that she encountered, the most famous of these arguably being the Royal Navy's HMS Hood, sunk with huge loss of life in the Battle of the Denmark Strait in May 1941. Bismarck is depicted here in company with Prinz Eugen. |
Canberra at San Carlos by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Looking slightly the worse for wear after her journey south to the Falkland Islands in 1982, the P&O cruise liner Canberra, requisitioned as a troop carrier at the outbreak of the conflict, is shown in the midst of an attack by Argentine Mirage aircraft in San Carlos Water during May. Believed by the Argentine pilots to be a hospital ship, Canberra herself was never targeted, but her proximity to other ships of the British task force meant that she was constantly in danger. |
HMS Barham with HMS Eagle in Valetta Harbour in Malta during the 1930s by Ivan Berryman (PC) The Battle ship HMS Barham in company with the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle between the two World Wars. Both fell victim to German U-Boats during World War Two. |
HMS Thrasher by Ivan Berryman. (PC) A T-Class submarine of the Royal Navy launched in 1940 and commissioned in May 1941, HMS Thrasher famously survived an attack by aircraft in 1942, her crew gaining two Victoria Crosses in the process. Immediately after attacking a supply vessel on 16th February, HMS Thrasher was bombed from the air but escaped unscathed. After resurfacing, two unexploded bombs were discovered within the casing of the submarine. The first was easily removed but the second took a contorted effort in confined spaces - an hour-long combined effort by Lt Roberts and PO Gould literally manhandled the lethal ordnance safely over the side. For actions that likely save the submarine, they were both awarded the Victoria Cross. |
HMS Tiger - Battle Survivor by Ivan Berryman (PC) During the First World War, HMS Tiger was fortunate to survive both the Battle of Dogger Bank and the Battle of Jutland, having been hit multiple times in both engagements. At Jutland, HMS Queen Mary exploded and sank just a few hundred yards ahead of HMS Tiger, the latter taking evasive action to dodge the wreckage and resulting smoke cloud. |
USS Coral Sea by Ivan Berryman. (PC) USS Coral Sea (CV-43 being replenished by fast combat support ship USS Seattle (DE-3) as two of the carriers compliment of F.4s of VF-111 The Sundowners makes a low pass. |
HMS Anson at Sydney Harbour, July 1945 by Ivan Berryman. (PC) The King George V class battleship HMS Anson is pictured in Sydney Harbour where she joined the Pacific Fleet in July 1945, viewed across the flight deck of HMS Vengeance, where ten of her Vought F4.U Corsairs are ranged in front of a single folded Fairey Barracuda. |
HMS Captain and HMS Southampton, 1796 by Ivan Berryman. (PC) The 74 gun HMS captain, flying the flag of Commodore Horatio Nelson, lies at anchor at Sound Rock, Bahamas, in company with the 32-gun frigate HMS Southampton in 1796. |
The Battle of Copenhagen, 2nd April 1801 by Ivan Berryman. (PC) The key to Nelsons victories always lay in his meticulous planning and the Battle of Copenghagen was no exception as he used his fleet to first destroy the Danish floating defences so that his bomb vessels could be brought up to bombard the city itself. The Danes eventually capitulated, but they had fought hard and over 2,000 men had died on both sides before the end of the battle. In this view, HMS Elephant, carrying the flag of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, dominates the scene as the battle gathers intensity. British ships depicted, left to right, are the Glatton (54), Elephant (74), Ganges (74) and Monarch (74) |
The Fighting Temeraire by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Few ships availed themselves better at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21st October 1805 than HMS Temeraire. Here, she is depicted engaging the French Fougeuex, the two ships inflicting the most terrible damage upon one another in the early stages of the battle. Some crew members can be seen on Temeraire’s foredeck, trying to cut away the fallen fore yard and sail while her fore topsail flaps helplessly above after being set on fire. The acrid gun smoke soon became so bad that Captain Harvey ordered the Temeraire’s larboard guns to stop firing briefly so that he could check that he was not firing on his own ships. Temeraire would eventually take both the Fougeuex and The Redoutable as prizes, at one point having one enemy ship lashed to each side of her hull. As an aside, Temeraire was most likely the only ship at Trafalgar to have no figurehead. Having been built during a more austere period, she lacked much of the decoration of her contemporaries. It is believed, however, that her crew funded a figurehead after the battle from their own prize money, as a ship with no figurehead was considered a ship with no eyes and no soul. A modest crowned head featured at her bow until she was broken up at Beatson’s Yard in Rotherhithe between 1838 and 1839. |
HMS Cossack on convoy duty by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Built by Vickers Armstrong and launched on 8th June 1937, at the outbreak of War the Cossack served in Home waters and also in the Mediterranean. She was torpedoed and sunk by U.563 in the North Atlantic on the 23rd of October 1941. |
Tribute to Lt Cdr Eric 'Winkle' Brown by Ivan Berryman. (PC) One of the most experienced and respected test pilots in history, Eric 'Winkle' Brown carried out the first landing and take off by a jet aircraft on an aircraft carrier on 3rd December 1945. This was accomplished in the second prototype De Havilland Vampire LZ551/G which had been extensively modified for the sole purpose of carrier operations. Not only was an arrester hook added, but the aircraft featured larger flaps and was fitted with the more powerful Goblin 2 engine. The first take off by a jet from an aircraft carrier is depicted here as Lt Cdr Brown lifts away from the deck of HMS Ocean on that momentous day. |
Trafalgar by Ivan Berryman. (PC) By 2.00pm on 21st October 1805, the Battle of Trafalgar was all but won, the combined French and Spanish fleets had suffered terrible losses, but not without great cost to the British. Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson lay dying in the cockpit of his flagship, Victory, having been struck down by a single musket round fired from the fighting top of the French Redoutable's mizzen mast as Nelson walked on deck with Captain Hardy. In this scene, the battered remains of Victory can be seen beneath the figurehead of the Spanish 74 Principe de Asturias which dominates the foreground. Beside her, the hulk of the Redoutable sags in the water as Temeraire breaks free. In the centre, the British 74 Leviathan is engaging the French 80-gun Neptune, whilst the San Augustin can be seen firing at the extreme right of the picture. |
Land, Sea and Air by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Spitfire of 761 Training Squadron (attached to the Royal Navy) flies over the Forth Railway Bridge on the eve of World War Two, also shown is HMS Royal Oak departing Rosyth for the open sea. |
In Destinys Hands, Trafalgar, 12:15 PM by Ivan Berryman (PC) It is approximately 12,15 pm on 21st October 1805. With the combined Franco-Spanish enemy line in the far distance, HMS Victory is just beginning to manouevre, having chosen the French flagship Bucentaure as her target. Behind Victory lies Temeraire, then Neptune, followed by the two-deckers, Leviathan and Conqueror and Agamemnon in the foreground. Victory is flying the signal Engage the Enemy Closely from her main mast. Most ships have their studding sails set on the larboard (port) side only trying to harness as much wind as possible to hasten their approach 1n such light airs. At this stage, the stoves will have been extinguished, the guns run out and all decks cleared for action, their floors strewn with sawdust to avoid slipping and to soak up the blood. The Marines will be in position the officers at their posts and gun crews may likely have been singing hearty songs to raise their spirits. Fate alone knew what awaited them, once the firing started. |
The Battle of Trafalgar, 2.30pm. The Taking of the Santisima Trinidad by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Dominating the centre foreground, the wreck of the largest ship at Trafalgar, the massive four decker Santisima Trinidad (130 guns), comes under further attack from the British Neptune (98 guns) All her masts have fallen, rendering the Spanish giant an unmanageable hulk. Elsewhere, the battle rages on with Temeraire and Victory engaged with the French Redoubtable, while to the right of the picture, the shattered, drifting remains of Villeneuves Bucentaure (80 guns) is approached by the Mars (74 guns) Conqueror (74 guns), off the Santisima Trinidads port quarter, is keeping up a distant fire to assist the Neptune. |
USS Constitution - 'Old Ironsides' by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Launched in 1797, the USS Constitution was the third of her class to be constructed at Edmund Hartt's shipyard in Boston, Massachusetts, this fine ship spending most of her early years in local waters, protecting merchantmen from French marauders. She is best remembered, however, for her decisive conquests against British ships during the war of 1812, among them the Guerriere against whom the Constitution gained her nickname 'Old Ironsides'. She continued to serve until 1881 and is still afloat today, the oldest seagoing warship in the world. |
Warm Work by Ivan Berryman. (PC) The time is approximately 12.20pm on 21st October 1805. HMS Victory forces her way through the combined Spanish and French line, firing all her larboard guns into the stern of Admiral Villeneuve’s flagship. Bucentaure was utterly destroyed by the initial salvo with twenty of her guns smashed off their mounts and over 300 of her crew left dead or disabled. But Victory herself had suffered much during the perilous approach to the enemy fleet. Unable to bring any guns to bear, she received multiple hits from the Franco-Spanish ships, bringing down her mizzen top, her fore topgallant mast, her studding sails and smashing the ship’s wheel. The bowsprit, part of her figurehead and catheads were shattered, her anchors carried away and the entire bow, headrails and beakhead were peppered with shot. The title of the painting refers to a comment made by Admiral Horatio Nelson as HMS Victory began to receive fire from the enemy. A piece of hot shrapnel tore the buckle off Nelson’s shoe as he paced the deck with Captain Hardy, to which he responded, “It is warm work today!” Sadly, just one hour later, Nelson was fatally wounded by a sharpshooter stationed on the mizzen top of the French Redoutable which can be seen to the left of the painting. The towering spectre of HMS Temeraire looms in the gunsmoke as she follows HMS Victory into the fray |
Line of Battle by Ivan Berryman. (PC) As Nelson’s column of ships began their approach to the French and Spanish fleet at the start of the Battle of Trafalgar on 21st October 1805, the first four ships to break through were to be HMS Victory at the head of the line, HMS Temeraire, HMS Neptune and the 74 gun two-decker HMS Leviathan. Afraid for his admiral’s safety in the lead ship, Captain Harvey of the Temeraire decided to break away from the line in order to overtake Victory and be the first ship through, thus taking the worst of the gunfire from the enemy line as they approached. However, it was Admiral Nelson’s habit always to lead from the front and, as Temeraire manoeuvred alongside Victory, Nelson took up his speaking trumpet, went to his ship’s side, and sternly shouted, 'I will thank you, Captain Harvey, to maintain your proper station which is astern of the Victory'. Harvey complied at once and fleet continued into battle as originally planned. |
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