useful facts + excellent stories about Liberty ship Convoy

Liberty Ship paintings

Liberty ship class, a fine maritime painting showing the various types.

Liberty Ship paintings
Liberty Ship Convoy

Standard size print of “Liberty ship Convoy
image size: 52 x 35 cm (20½” x 14″)

Liberty ships confounded the critics, served successfully in all theatres of the war and world wide long after, exceeding all expectations, a rare achievement and certainly helped defeat the Axis powers.

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Last Buccaneer

Anson

George Anson’s squadron, a maritime paintings and brief summary of Anson’s amazing circumnavigation.

George Anson
The Last Buccaneers, 50 x 81 cm  (20″ x 32″), sold via A E Dutton & Sons Gallery of Chester.

George Anson’s squadron

Anson was sometimes described as “the last buccaneer” however he was not a pirate.

If you like reading and fancy reading a true story that is almost unbelievable, way beyond anything Hollywood could produce, try ‘Log of the Centurion’ by Leo Heaps.

I research the voyage including being given permission to photograph the superb model of HMS Centurion at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, and made 3 paintings back in the 1980’s.

The paintings long since sold and a summery of the story are on my website under ‘warships’, take a look and enjoy .

 

Pirates attack any ship regardless of nationality and follow no laws.

Anson only attacked enemies during wartime.

Anson and his men behaved as an exemplary Royal Navy seamen should.

Often during wars, private ships, ‘privateers’, were issued a commission to attack enemies as the Americans did on many occasions. Mostly merchant ships were the preferred prey, victims of privateers.

The French speak of corsairs with a ‘lettre de marque’ and so on with other nations.

Fortunes were sometimes made for example by Surcoff sailing out of Saint Marlo, France.

Anson
The Last Buccaneer

Unusual for a living artist Gordon Frickers has produced paintings that have already become world famous so if you are looking for the new masters of the 21st century, you have found one here.

HMS Centurion, Anson’s Centurion

HMS Centurion was a 4th 60 gun ship of the line launched at Portsmouth in 1732, Centurion  commissioned in 1734. 

Centurion served in the Home Fleet and took part in the expedition to Lisbon by Sir John Norris. 

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The marine painting of Condell leaving Portsmouth by Gordon Frickers.

The frigate Condell marine painting went down a real treat. The Chileans were very impressed and Capt Cruz the commanding officer was over the moon and said he was going to have it welded to the wardroom bulkhead so none of the Admirals, and there were six Chilean Admirals present, could get their fingers on it!” wrote Captain John Simkins a director, the Chief Executive, Disposal Services Agency of the Ministry of Defence after the presentation of the completed piece of marine art commission .Condell__ship_detail_IMG_4640_wp.jpg

The origin, this marine painting  was commissioned by

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The Golden Hinde – dread pirate

Golden Hinde

Drake’s voyage between 1577 and 1580 made his reputation and a fortune.

 

Golden Hinde
The Golden Hinde


A little gem of a painting like this 20 x 25 cm, (8 x 10″) so
won’t cost a fortune and you will, then have an original ‘Gordon Frickers’.

Pure piracy? Naah, rather, good very good value !

The Golden Hinde voyage remains one of the most extraordinary adventures of all time combining many of the ingredients of a best selling story.
Francis Drake was a Devon man who captained the “Golden Hinde” (pronounced – ˈhind’) (or Golden Hind), an English “Race Galleon” type of ship out of Plymouth England to become the first Captain and the First English captain to circumnavigate the globe.

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Portsmouth, HMS Victory and Pickle

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Just back from an awesome visit to Portsmouth brought about by one of my “icon” marine paintings, “I have urgent dispatches”  http://www.frickers.co.uk/marine-art/urgent_dispatches.html,  WOT! you don’t have a copy in your collection yet? and it is going to be shown on TV? ~ available exclusively from this site as a limited signed edition.

Yesterday morning I joined Tom Cunliffe and the Forum Film team boarding HMS Victory at 07.30 to film part of an episode of “The boats that built Britain“,  and was pinching myself by 08.00 in the Admiral’s great cabin wondering if this was really happening…  The_great_cabin_IMG_6492_d.jpg

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About The Port of Chester (1863)

The main reason this fine painting “The Port of Chester (1863)” was created was to influence & assist the Chester City Council to understand the facility which was up for re-development. If more councils had as much imagination we could redevelop our towns and cities with significantly more sensitivity. They should contact this artist!!!   … Read more

useful facts + excellent stories about Rajula at Madras

Rajula at Madras “Rajula” an introduction

1926-1973

No ship gave longer service to the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd (British India Line) than the Rajula.

Rajula was a Clyde built Ship.

Rajula” was licensed when new, for the enormous total of over 5000 deck passengers.

This original number was easily the largest number of passengers in a single hull under the British flag.

Passengers carried: 30 1st, 30 2nd, 92 3rd, 5113 (later 3622) deck.

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“Rajula” was a most remarkable British India Steam Navigation Company ship, surprising and long lived ship with a very worthwhile career and an excellent reputation.

Built 1926 at Glasgow for the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd, BI formed in 1856 was one of the largest companies in the British mercantile marine.

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The story about "Zeven Provinciën", Royal Netherlands Navy

"Zeven Provinciën", Royal Netherlands Navy

“Zeven Provinciën”

A  very fine painting of this Eighty gun Ship of the Line, full size replica now building at the Batavia Wherf,  Leylastad, in the Netherlands.

The original plan was to produce prints, the sale of which would support this amazing project. At that time it was not possible to produce small print runs economically (it is now).

Collect your signed numbered copy of this beautiful painting using Paypal from page http://www.frickers.co.uk/prints.html 

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