Naval artist Robert Taylor's naval art
prints of the Kriegsmarine and German Imperial Navy. Robert Taylor's naval
paintings of U-Boats, German Battleship Bismarck, Prinz Eugen and
Scharnhorst available as signed limited edition art prints from Cranston
Fine Arts, the military art print company.
Atlantic Wolves by Robert Taylor.
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Item Code : RST0005
Atlantic Wolves by Robert Taylor. - Editions Available
Hit and run attacks by fast moving German E-Boats were a constant threat to vital Allied shipping in the Mediterranean during the second World War. Often made under cover of darkness, these fast, highly manoeuvrable craft would speed through a convoy, release their torpedoes, and disappear into the night. During the night of 15 June 1942 German E-Boats of the 3rd Flotilla left their Eastern Mediterranean base at Derna to intercept an Allied convoy bound for the island of Malta. Shortly after midnight, under the command of Leutnant Seigfried Wuppermann, the motor torpedo boat S-56 slipped past two Royal Navy escort destroyers to make a stern attack on the British cruiser HMS Newcastle. Alerted to the incoming attack, suddenly a searchlight at Newcastles foremast switched on, illuminating S-56 from stem to stern. Reacting quickly, Wuppermann fired two torpedoes in quick succession from 600 yards, and turned hard to starboard to make good his escape. A second searchlight aboard Newcastle.........
Leaving the port of Gdynia on May 18th 1941, two large German warships stealthily zig-zagged their way up the coast of Norway at the outset of what was to become one pf the shortest, most fiercely fought naval contests of the Second World War. Operation Rheinubung was under way. With Fleet Commander Admiral Lutjens on the bridge, the brand new battleship Bismarck would leave the relative safety of the Norwegian fjords, destined for the busy shipping lanes in the Atlantic. After refuelling, and in company with the battlecruiser Prinz Eugen, on May 21st the two heavily armed warships headed for the Denmark Strait and out into the wide expanse of the Atlantic. Bound for active convoy routes, Bismarck would play havoc with vital Allied merchant shipping. Faster than almost any warship afloat, the magnificent new 42,000 ton monsters awesome firepower would prove no match for the lightly protected merchantmen or their escorts, as they laboriously plied their desperately needed cargo ac.........
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Peaceful Anchorage by Robert Taylor
Ships of the East Asiatic Squadron at anchor in a Pacific Island bay prior to the outbreak of hostilities in 1914. The ships are, left to right, light cruisers Nurnberg and Dresden, cruiser Gneisenau and von Spees flagship Scharnhorst.
Item Code : DHM2181
Peaceful Anchorage by Robert Taylor - Editions Available
The awesome battleship Tirpitz under the command of Admiral Schniewind, in company with battleships Scheer and Hipper, setting sail during Operation Rosselsprung, destined for the open sea and the North Atlantic convoy traffic. Messerschmitt Me109s of JG5, based at Petsamo, provide overhead cover while flotilla escort vessels make up the fearsome armada. The magnificent Norwegian mountains provide a spectacular backdrop this comprehensively realistic and stirring World War Two image.
Item Code : DHM2304
Knights Move by Robert Taylor - Editions Available
The Prinz Eugen, one of the finest and most famous ships in the German Navy, shelling Russian shore positions in Western Samland, the Baltic, January 1945 Earlier in the war The Prinz Eugen took part in the sinking of H.M.S. Hood and later the Channel Dash.
Item Code : DHM2117
Offshore Bombardment by Robert Taylor - Editions Available
The pride of the German Navy, this magnificent battleship attracted the full wrath of the Royal Navy when, by brilliant gunnery, she sank the Hood. Within three days she was herself sunk by the Home Fleet with the loss of all but 110 of her crew.
Item Code : DHM2105
Battleship Bismarck by Robert Taylor - Editions Available
In the early hours of May 24, 1941, as the mighty German battleships Bismarck and Prinz Eugen slipped through the Denmark Strait, they were dramatically intercepted by the Royal Navy battleships Hood and Prince of Wales. Within six minutes of the first salvo being fired, the Hood, pride of the Royal Navy, was blown out of the water in one of the most gigantic explosions ever witnessed at sea. Bismarcks fourth salvo landed a shell forward of the Hoods after turrets, piercing her deck, exploding the 4-inch magazine. Simultaneously this detonated the adjacent 15-inch magazine, and in one mighty eruption the battleship broke in two. Within seconds she was gone. Of the ships company of 1400 officers and sailors only three survived. Outraged at the grievous loss Winston Churchill signaled the Admiralty just three words: Sink the Bismarck! Thus began one of the epic sea chases in the history of naval warfare. Damaged by shells from the Prince of Wales 14-inch guns and losing fuel oil, Admi.........
Robert Taylors painting protrays the renowned defiance of the U-Boat crews. Caught on the surface by a PBY Catalina the gun crews of a type VIIc U-Boat are quickly into action. The 3.7cm anti-aircraft gun is hurriedly reloaded while on the upper platform the two 2cm anti-aircraft twins take chunks out of the Catalinas tail - enough damage to secure a respite from the attack. Soon they will dive to relative safety beneath the Atlantic swell.
Item Code : DHM2119
Against All Odds by Robert Taylor. - Editions Available
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Knights Move by Robert Taylor In the early hours of May 24, 1941, as the mighty German battleships
Bismarck and Prinz Eugen slipped through the Denmark Strait, they were
dramatically intercepted by the Royal Navy battleships Hood and Prince
of Wales. Within six minutes of the first salvo being fired, the Hood,
pride of the Royal Navy, was blown out of the water in one of the most
gigantic explosions ever witnessed at sea.
Bismarck's fourth salvo landed a shell forward of the Hood's after
turrets, piercing her deck, exploding the 4-inch magazine.
Simultaneously this detonated the adjacent 15-inch magazine, and in one
mighty eruption the battleship broke in two. Within seconds she was
gone. Of the ships company of 14000 officers and sailors only three
survived.
Outraged at the grievous loss Winston Churchill signalled the
Admiralty just three words: "Sink the Bismarck!" Thus began
one of the epic sea chases in the history of naval warfare. Damaged by shells from Prince of Wales' 14-inch guns, and losing fuel
oil, Admiral Lutjens broke off the engagement and steamed Bismarck
towards the anonymity of the North Atlantic. Evading the British
warships for 32 hours he had hopes of reaching the safety of Brest, but
when spotted by a Catalina of RAF Coastal Command, Lutjens knew it was
the beginning of the end for the mighty German warship. When an attack
by Ark Royal's Swordfish torpedo planes jammed her rudder Bismarck's
fate was sealed. As she limped haphazardly through the waves trailing
oil, the Home Fleet closed in for the final encounter. Overwhelmed by
British guns and torpedoes, Bismarck's crew fought a gallant last
battle, but the odds were too great. Watching Bismarck's final moments
from King George V's bridge, Admiral Tovey said: "She put up a
noble fight against impossible odds, worthy of the old days of the
Imperial German Navy."
Sighting the Bismarck by Robert Taylor The fateful moment the Bismarck was located by RAF Coastal Command.
Greeted by a defiant barrage of fire from Bismarck's anti-aircraft guns,
the Catalina veers away, but already the radio operator has transmitted
her position. Like the Hood just two days earlier, the pride of Hitler's
Kriegsmarine was by now destined for the deep.
Offshore Bombardment by Robert Taylor Prinz Eugen in company with destroyers and torpedo boats shelling
Russian shore positions in Western Samland with her 8-inch guns.
Operation Cerberus by Robert Taylor Portrayal of the Channel Dash - three German ships
Scharnhorst, Gneisenau embark from Brest,
France returning to home ports encounter their own mines.
Scharnhorst at Anchor by Robert Taylor Vice-Admiral Graf von Spee's flagship, the 11,400 ton armoured
cruiser Scharnhorst seen with light cruiser Nurnberg, off the coast of
Chile after the German Squadron's victory at Coronel, November 1914.
Peaceful Anchorage by Robert Taylor Ships of the East Asiatic Squadron at anchor in a Pacific Island bay
prior to the outbreak of hostilities in 1914. The ships are, left to
right, light cruisers Nurnberg and Dresden, cruiser Gneisenau and von
Spee's flagship Scharnhorst. At the outbreak
of World War I, Germany's East Asiatic squadron, consisting of two large
armoured cruisers and three light cruisers under the command of Vice
Admiral Graf Spee, travelled from their base at Tsingtao in northern
China, across the western Pacific to the coast of Chile. On 1st November
they were intercepted off the Chilean port of Coronel by a British
squadron where, enjoying a large advantage in firepower, the encounter
ended with a resounding victory for Admiral Graf Spee. The British
Admiralty reacted swiftly, despatching a powerful naval force to the South
Atlantic to confront the German squadron, and on 9th December battle
commenced some 120 miles south west of the Falkland Islands. Outnumbered,
outgunned, and outpaced by the British force, the Battle of the Falklands
was over by nightfall. Von Spee and the entire crew of his flagship
Scharnhorst perished, and with Leipzig, Nurnberg and Gneisenau also sunk,
the East Asiatic Squadron was routed. Only Dresden escaped and when she
was scuttled in Chilean waters four months later, the East Asiatic
Squadron ceased to exist.
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