Antique watercolour paintings of HMS
Tiger, Lion, Princess Royal HMS Southampton HMS Defence . by naval artist W L Wyllie. Collection of
antique naval prints of naval watercolours by W L Wyllie, published 1918
by Cassel & Company. These naval print plates of water colour
paintings by
Wyllie
with an image size 7" x 4" overall paper size 9.5" x
7" are available from Cranston Fine Arts. Only three copies of each.
Lion, Tiger and Princess Royal in Chase by W L WyllieLion Leading the Battle Cruisers by W L Wyllie
Southampton in the Battle of Jutland by W L Wyllie.
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Southampton in the Battle of Jutland by W L Wyllie. - Editions Available
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Small print from the collection of antique naval book plates of naval water colours by W L Wyllie, published 1918 by Cassel & Company. Full Item Details
Paper size 9.5 inches x 7 inches (24cm x 17cm)
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The Second Division at Jutland by W L Wyllie.
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Small print from the collection of antique naval book plates of naval water colours by W L Wyllie, published 1918 by Cassel & Company. Full Item Details
It is not always realised by “the man in the street” that in the exercise of sea power, actual fighting plays a relatively small part. In hand warfare, under modern conditions, the opposing forces are in absolutely continuous contact, and the ebb and flow of battle never ceases until one side is annihilated or driven to surrender. Naval war had never been like that. The ultimate object of the superior fleet is to control the seas-that is, to close the ocean highways completely to the enemy-and whether that control is secured either by the destruction of the hostile fleet or by instilling in it a healthy dread of putting its fate to the test of battle in the open is a matter of relative indifference.
These few general remarks are necessary to preface the story of the greatest naval action of the first two years of war-and one, further, of the fiercest and most costly of which history has any record. In the early afternoon of May 31st 1916, the light cruiser scouts of the British Grand Fleet encountered off the northwestern coast of Denmark some similar vessels belonging to the German navy. It inspired that the German Sea Fleet was “out “ in its full available strength, though with what object it had put to sea has not even yet been divulged. It is unlikely that the intention of its commander-in-chief, Admiral von Scheer, was to throw down the gage of battle to Sir John Jellicoe, nor, if he knew anything of the organization of our north Sea patrol, could he have hoped to cut off any appreciable part of our forces before reinforcements came up sufficient to deal comfortably with the German navy. Speculation on these points is not very much use. The facts-which are all that we have to deal with-are that when the advanced flotillas of the German fleet were somewhere near the Skagerrak-the first gateway into the Baltic-they found themselves engaged with the light craft standing out ahead of Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty’s Battle Cruiser Division.
