The Maritime Prints business is for sale. At 78 yrs of age and after 26 years I’ve reluctantly concluded that I need to draw stumps. But a huge amount of love and effort has gone into the project so it needs to go to someone who can lavish a similar amount of care on it - it’s been a hugely rewarding business. Is there anyone out there who would like to take it on? Please contact Rick Cosby on 01460 63776 or [email protected].

The Battle of Jutland: HMS WARSPITE In Trouble at Windy Corner, 31 May 1916

(MP005). Irwin Bevan (1852-1940). Watercolour signed not dated.

Limited Edition worldwide: 25

Standard print size: 19 x 12 ins (48 x 30 cms) approx.

£120-155


Purchase or enquire about this print

One of a pair (see MP006 for the other in the pair) by Bevan commissioned by the wardroom of WARSPITE for the departing senior chaplain, the Rev Walter Carey, who had performed, we are told, so stoically during the heat of the action: he left the ship for a further appointment a short while after she had returned to Rosyth dockyard for repairs and subsequently became Bishop of Bloemfontein, Southern Africa.  Bevan’s watercolour shows the battleship in action at Jutland and captures the the difficult visibility – considerably worsened by the huge volumes of cordite and funnel smoke that were emitted by the participants –  that characterised that late afternoon off the Jutland peninsular when with steering gear jammed to starboard, considerably knocked about already and under heavy fire, she hauls out of line.