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Description: | Signed by artist (in black) and lightly inscribed in pencil below it, lower right ' A light cruiser in Scapa Bay', this finished watercolour was reproduced in colour with the title given above in Wyllie's co-authored book 'More Sea Fights of the Great War', f. p. 78. The ship shown on the right, in Scapa Flow with her boat booms out, is a 'Chatham'- or 'Birmingham'- class light cruiser of the 2nd or 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron attached to the Battlecruiser Force in 1918. She appears to have range-finder baffles on her foremast, which is unusual since photographic evidence for this on any vessels of these classes is elusive.
Box Title: Wyllie: Kitson II b 1-33 1st World War. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | drawings | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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