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HMS RAMILLIES, one of the five R Class battleships, was launched in 1914. During the launch, she injured her rudder […]
This famous battle cruiser pictured on “ a December afternoon at Scapa with island of Hoy and German Battle Cruisers […]
HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH (Captain Geoffrey Blake DSO RN), flagship of the Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet (Admiral Sir John de Robeck Bt […]
(MP521). Frank Watson Wood (1862-1953). watercolour signed and dated 1928. 49 9 x 15.5 ins (23 x 39.5 cms) approx
(MP403). Frank Watson Wood (1862-1953). watercolour signed and dated 1921 (LR). Limited Edition:12 copies worlwide 17 1/2 x 5 1/4 […]
The protected anchorage at Portland formed by Chesil Beach and the south Dorset coast mainland to the west and […]
The scene here painted by Frank Watson Wood shows RMS EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA (Captain Archibald Meikle MN) wearing the Royal […]
Built on the banks of Scotland’s River Clyde, the great 860 foot long hull – already weighing some 21,000 tons […]
With a Queen Elizabeth Class battleship slowly underway only a few cables to starboard, the steam pinnace, her aft cabin […]
HMS St VINCENT was, when laid down in the last few days of 1907, the first Dreadnought battleship designed to […]
This watercolour is one of several similar ones Frank Wood painted of the forlorn scene as ships of the surrendered […]
It was in the early spring of 1937 that the Governor General of Canada, Lord Tweedsmuir (better known as the […]
In a position about half a mile north of the little town of Dartmouth on the SW peninsular, close to […]
The second battlecruiser to be built for the Royal Navy, INFLEXIBLE was completed on 20 October 1908 and commissioned at […]
Although the watercolour is dated 1927, perusal of HOOD’s Log for that year fails to yield evidence of when she […]
Frank Watson Wood was clearly a very busy artist over this period of the two fleet reviews which occurred within […]
This beautiful battle cruiser who joined the Grand Fleet on 6th November 1914 having been rushed to completion by her […]
NEW ZEALAND, one of the Indefatigable Class of battle cruisers, was laid down on 20th June 1910 at Fairfields’ yard […]
Three of His Majesty’s fleets are seen here mustered at Spithead: the Mediterranean, the Home and the Reserve Fleets. […]
On conclusion of the Jubilee Fleet Review units of the Home and Mediterranean Fleets steamed past HM King George V […]
Dated 1920, this tranquil scene by Frank Wood, shows what is, in most cases, the penultimate destination of some fine […]
COLLINGWOOD (Captain J C Ley RN) was present at Jutland on 31 May 1916 as part of the 1st Battle […]
165 vessels anchored at Spithead for HM King George V’s Coronation Review including 32 battleships and dreadnoughts, 24 armoured cruisers, […]
The painting, dated exactly a week after the Review shows QUEEN ELIZABETH preparing to enter dry dock for her reconstruction. […]
In 1922 when this watercolour is dated, the Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth (flag in HMS VICTORY) was Admiral The Hon Sir Somerset […]
This fine, large watercolour gives us a glimpse of how HMS PRINCE OF WALES (Captain J C Leach MVO RN) […]
The setting is very familiar to those who know Frank Watson Wood’s Plymouth seascapes: a view looking south east across […]
Frank Wood is at his best, they say, when he’s got a calm day and some beautiful scenery – and […]
There is that wonderful anecdotal letter written, we are told, by a Boy Seaman of the Grand Fleet who on […]
Discovered in a picture gallery in Arizona, USA in September 2005, this is a magnificent great watercolour – it measures […]
IRON DUKE entering Portsmouth dominates the centre forground of this painting; QUEEN ELIZABETH berthing alongside to the left, and over […]
This watercolour, the second of the pair from BRITANNIA’s wardroom (see above), shows the scene at Portsmouth shortly after 3.05pm […]
HMS RENOWN is seen here entering Plymouth on completion of her tour to India and Japan and the Far East […]
Although the precise location of this scene cannot be identified for certain, it appears to be off Plymouth breakwater, the […]
HMS REVENGE (Captain George Ross CB RN) is painted here by Frank Watson Wood lying to a buoy in the […]
Both the Home Fleet (Admiral the Earl of Cork & Orrery flying his flag in HMS NELSON) and the Mediterranean […]
This watercolour is a smaller and mirror image version of another one by Frank Wood on this website, MP120. Was […]
HMS NEPTUNE appears several times elsewhere on this website and the notes there are applicable here. At around this time […]
A monochrome illustration showing – from a seagull’s perspective – the Review with ships anchored in lines receeding as far […]
It was the squadron that arguably saved Beatty’s bacon at Jutland! There were five ships in the 5th Battle Squadron: […]
Under the superintendence of the Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth, Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe KCB, the two divisions of the Home Fleet and […]
Although dated in Wood’s own hand 1935, this is clearly a scene of the early 1920s as defined by the […]
There are paintings of ships and there are paintings of ships: this is one of those whose appeal is largely […]
The squadron was a mixed bag of classes of cruiser and was under the command of Rear Admiral 1st Cruiser […]
This fine watercolour has been annotated, verso, in pencil, “Spring 1924” although the painting was not actually completed, signed and […]
Built by Armstrong at Elswick, England from 1911-1915 to order for the Chilean Navy and originally named VALPARAISO, this ship […]
This is a pair with a similarly sized painting by Wood on this website (MP037) and shows HMS RENOWN (Captain […]
It is easy to forget these days, many years now since the Royal Navy left Portland Naval Base, that it […]
Painted here when Atlantic Fleet Flagship of Vice Admiral Sir William May KCB. The KING EDWARDs, the last of the […]
IRON DUKE (Captain C.S. Douglas-Pennant DSC RN) in centre foreground with REVENGE (Captain F.A. Buckley RN), BARHAM (Captain N.A. Wodehouse […]
The last warship of any size to be built on the River Thames THUNDERER commissioned in June 1912. Together with […]
A distinctly chilly scene; icy looking seas lightened by the sparkling white of EMPREES of AUSTRALIA and icebergs which in […]
HMS NEPTUNE was Portsmouth built and Portsmouth manned and was completed in January 1911, only two years after she had […]
