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    vegaskip
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        Hospital Ship UGANDA with a Chinook Helicopter unloading casualties off the Falkland Islands In 1982 while a Royal Navy WESSEX awaits its turn
        W/C 16” X 11”
        Jim
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        #800498
        vegaskip
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            Murmansk
            “It’s not over till the ‘Fat Lady’ sings” After Fighting it’s way across thousands of miles of hostile ocean, Russian Convoys still had to endure frequent air attacks. The ‘Front Line’ was less than 50 miles from Murmansk
            W/C 16” X 11”
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            #800499
            vegaskip
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                More peaceful this time
                Shipping on the Thames late 19th century
                16” X 11”
                Jim
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                #800368

                You certainly know your ships and planes.

                Doug


                We must leave our mark on this world

                #800500
                vegaskip
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                    You certainly know your ships and planes.

                    Doug

                    Just what floats my boat Doug!
                    Jim

                    #800501
                    vegaskip
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                        Inferno
                        A torpedoed Tanker sinking by the bows with a corvette standing by to pickup survivors ………perhaps!
                        W/C 13” X 8”
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                        #800502
                        vegaskip
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                            Running for Home
                            w/c 13”X 9”
                            Jim
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                            vegaskip
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                                Minesweeper HMS Halcyon and Liberty Ship (take your pic for a name!) in ice off the Kola Inlet
                                Watercolour 12” X 7”
                                Jim
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                                Trumper
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                                    :) Like like like like :)

                                    #800504
                                    vegaskip
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                                        :) Like like like like :)

                                        Thank you

                                        Last year I was approached by Katya, a Teacher in a School in Murmansk. She asked if I could help her with some of my paintings of Russian Convoys, for a project she was doing with her pupils for the School Museum. She contacted me through the Dervish75 events which Greta and I Attended. Some of you probably know her from the visit and other Veteran events. Anyway, today I received a letter with a Christmas Card from her, along with the end result of the project. A small folder with photos of my paintings. It is to be used to promote the School’s Museum.
                                        A small thing but a little sign of friendship by the ordinary people of both Countries.
                                        See attached photos
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                                        #800505
                                        vegaskip
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                                            The inside of the folder
                                            Jim
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                                            #800371
                                            NeilF92
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                                                Many fine paintings Jim – of them all my favourite is “Running for Home”.

                                                #800497
                                                vegaskip
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                                                    Thanks Neil, here’s more.
                                                    Early in the morning on Sunday 10 May 1719 HMS Worcester, HMS Flamborough and HMS Enterprise anchored off Eilean Donan and sent a boat ashore under a flag of truce to negotiate. When the Spanish soldiers in the castle fired at the boat, it was recalled and all three ships opened fire on the castle for an hour or more. The next day the bombardment continued while a landing party was prepared. In the evening under the cover of an intense cannonade, a detachment went ashore in the ships’ boats and captured the castle against little resistance. According to Worcester’s log, in the castle were “an Irishman, a captain, a Spanish lieutenant, a serjeant, one Scotch rebel and 39 Spanish soldiers, 343 barrels of powder and 52 barrels of musquet shot.”The naval force spent the next two days and 27 barrels of gunpowder demolishing the castle.
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                                                    #800495
                                                    vegaskip
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                                                        Bit of roughers
                                                        Dory’s and Schooner on the Grand Banks.
                                                        w/c 16” X 11”
                                                        Jim
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                                                        #800496
                                                        vegaskip
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                                                            Not far from here
                                                            ‘U’ class Submarine heading up the Tay to HMS Ambrose Dundee’s Submarine Base
                                                            W/C 13” X 10”
                                                            Jim
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