File:'Mine Sweepers waiting for the fog to lift'; off Fort Blockhouse, Portsmouth RMG PW1146.jpg
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English: 'Mine Sweepers waiting for the fog to lift'; off Fort Blockhouse, Portsmouth Inscribed, as title, and signed by artist, lower right. This atmospheric watercolour was reproduced (in black and white) in Wyllie and M.F. Wren's 'Sea Fights of the Great War' (1918) f. p. 40. It shows about half a dozen harbour launches tied to a single buoy off Fort Blockhouse, at the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour, with more men coming aboard in a large rowing barge, as they wait for morning fog to clear. They were not minesweepers in the technical sense: their job was to inspect the approach channels to the harbour for any signs of suspicious acitivity and their only 'minesweeping' equipment was grappling hooks and small marker buoys to mark anything they found. |
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| Date | circa 1916 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | 261 mm x 421 mm | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Box Title: Wyllie: Kitson VIII (c) (d) fishing boats, small. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/125281 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | Caird Catalogue Number (CCAT): CC V1, P8, 65 Caird Catalogue Wyllie Collection Number: 69 30 Caird Catalogue Wyllie Collection Number: 79 30 Kitson/Wyllie Catalogue Number: VIII d 16 id number: PAF1146 |
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| Collection | Fine art | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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