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Description: | This oil painting depicts the surrender of the German submarine U-111 to the anti-submarine trawler 'Lady Shirley' in position 27.15N, 20.27W south west of Tenerife, on 4 October 1941. She had been brought to the surface by repeated depth-charging and eight of the 52 strong crew had been killed. U-111 had been laid down in February 1940 at Bremen and had previously carried out two patrols during the Batte of the Atlantic, sinking four Allied merchant ships with a combined tonnage of 24,176 tons.
This painting was exhibited in the National Gallery's War Artists exhibition in 1942.
Signed in red in lower left: Chas. PEARS.
caption: Surrender of U-boat U3 to the trawler Lady Shirley, 7 December 1941 | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Lady Shirley paintings U3 1935 (Germany) U3 Lady Shirley 1937 | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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