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Queen Mary 2 - 1st Class Stamp Arriving
at Southampton for her naming ceremony in 2003, `Queen Mary 2` then
made her maiden voyage to the USA on January 12th 2004. At this time
she was the largest passenger liner ever built. A Royal Mail First
Class postage stamp was issued at the time to commemorate the occasion.
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Atlantic Convoy Fine Art Print 20 x 27 inches (508 x 686 mm) Price £24 A
typical scene during WW2 with a Flower Class Corvette escorting
merchantmen. Some of these ships were armed, as depicted, fore and aft
on the
freighter. The guns were manned by the D. E. M. S. gunners, a branch of
the
Royal Navy seconded to the merchant service.
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Barque Mexico Fine Art Print 25 x 18 inches (635 x 457 mm) Price £24 On
Sunday 5th of December 1886 under the command of Captain Burmester the
German barque `Mexico` sailed from Liverpool bound for South America.
At 3am on Thursday December 9th 1886 `Mexico` sailed into tremendous gales
running her into difficulties on the Lancashire coast.
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Wreck of the Mexico Fine Art Print 25 x 18 inches (635 x 457 mm) Price £24 On
the evening of December 9th 1886 the German barque `Mexico`, originally
named John Bull and built in 1860 by Oswalds of Sunderland
before
being bought by Messrs Ostling Gerbruder and renamed `Mexico`, got into
difficulties off the Southport coast.
Three lifeboats carrying 44 men went to her rescue, only one lifeboat and 17 men returned. Two lifeboats and 27 men were lost resulting in the worst tragedy ever in the annals of the RNLI. Subsequently Lifeboat Saturday was conceived, bringing in much-needed funds to the completely voluntary RNLI service. |
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Britannia in 1840 Fine Art Print 28 x 19 inches (711 x 483 mm) Price £24 Charles
Dickens made his first journey to America on `Britannia`, Samuel
Cunard`s first liner. A paddle steamer, she was built in 1840 by R.
Duncan & Company of Greenock.
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Britannia at Sea Fine Art Print 18 x 13 inches (457 x 330 mm) Price £24 Charles
Dickens made his first journey to America on `Britannia`,
Samuel Cunard`s first liner. A paddle steamer, she was built in 1840 by
R. Duncan & Company of Greenock.
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Caronia in the River Mersey Fine Art Print 18 x 13 inches (460 x 330 mm) Price £12 The
painting depicts the renaming of the Cunarder
`Vistafjord` to `Caronia` which took place at the Pier Head in
Liverpool.
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P &O Liner Canberra Leaving Southampton Fine Art Print 18 x 13 inches (460 x 330 mm) Price £12 |
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City of Adelaide Fine Art Print 18 x 13 inches (460 x 330 mm) Price £12 The
791 ton ship, built by William Pile of Sunderland in 1864 was
the first ship built for London ship brokers Devitt and Moore who
entered the passenger and cargo trade to South Australia.
It
was a
fast ship sometimes taking only 65 days to reach Australia.
Sold to a Dover coal merchant in 1887 it was soon working the Canadian
timber trade. In 1893 it became a hospital ship at
Southampton,
serving during WW2 as an acommodation ship, later becoming a Naval
Reserve Ship at Greenock and renamed HMS Carrick. The ship was moved in
1992 to Irvine and a salvage appeal launched for its restoration by the
Scottish Maritime Museum.
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Race Fever Fine Art Print 26 x 19 inches (660 x 480 mm) Price £24 The
Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race
is the longest running and most famous event of its kind.
Here is
the fleet in full sail during the race.
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Arrival of the Tall Ships in the Mersey 1992 Fine Art Print 26 x 19 inches (660 x 480 mm) Price £24 Commemorating
the 500th anniversary of Columbus's landing in the New World.
The
painting shows a group of the largest tall ships in the world, in the
foreground is the Polish full-rigged ship "Dar Mlodziezy!, built of
steel in Gdansk in 1982. The scene in the painting is of the
formation of the "Grand Parade of Sail" when the vessels were about to
leave at the end of their stay in Liverpool.
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HMS Cornwall in River Mersey in 1993 Fine Art print 20 x 27 inches (508 x 686 mm) Price £24 Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the battle of the Atlantic |
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Royal Charter off Moelfre Fine Art Print 28 x 19 inches (711 x 483 mm) Price £24 `Royal
Charter` was an iron-built steam clipper built at Sandycroft on the
River Dee, N. Wales and owned by Gibbs Bright & Company. She
ended
her days wrecked on the Anglesey coast in the great storm of 1859. Her
390 passengers were mostly returning gold prospectors with gold in
their possession totalling £322,440. This was later found
scattered along the coastline resulting in the `Royal Charter` being
called the `Golden Wreck`
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Sisters Two - Lusitania and Mauretania Fine Art Print 18 x 13 inches (457 x 330 mm) Price £12 |
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RMS Mauretania leaving Liverpool for New York Fine Art Print 18 x 13 inches (457 x 330 mm) Price £12 |
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P.S.N.C.
Reina
del Pacifico in the Fine Art Print 18 x 13 inches (457 x 330 mm) Price £12Pacific
Steam
Navigation Company liner "Reina del Pacifico" leaving
Liverpools'
River Mersey for another voyage to South Americs. She is
being
turned seaward by the tug/tender "Flying Breeze"
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PS Persia Fine Art Print 18 x 13 inches (457 x 330 mm) Price £12 Paddle Steamer "Perisia", Samuael Cunard's first iron-hulled ship, built in 1856 and launched on January 26th 1857. Persia was then the largest steam ship in the world. |
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QE2 in River Mersey Fine Art Print 23 x 14 inches (585 x 355 mm) Limited Edition Print - Price £75 On August 31st 1994 the QE2 sailed into the River Mersey to commemorate her 25th birthday. The painting depicts her being escoted by tugs from Howard Smith Towing, formerly the Alexandra Towing Company. Limited
Edition prints numbering 850 copies, signed by the artist and
co-signed by the captain of the day are available . |
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QE2 leaving Southampton Fine Art Print 18 x 13 inches (457 x 330 mm) Price £12 The
QE2 at Southampton docks getting ready for sea.
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Wavertree Fine Art Print 18 x 13 inches (457 x 330 mm) Price £12Owned
by R. W. Leyland of Liverpool, built by Oswald Mourdant at Southampton.
Painting shows Wavertree being passed in the Irish Sea by Cunard's "Umbria" and Alfred Holt's Blue Funnel Line "Agememnon". |
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Red Squadron of King Charles II Battle FleetFine Art Print 18 x 13 inches (460 x 330 mm) Price £12 During King Charles II reign America was a British colony resulting in the King putting his name to several parts of the country, e.g. Charles Towne which was eventually re-named Charleston. Sailing warships, as depicted in this painting, were a familiar scene in American waters. Here we see the 3rd rate Hampton Court, circa 1678, a vessel of his majesty’s navy patrolling the western approaches. |
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