HMS Majestic Naval prints

Naval Art prints of HMS Majestic the majestic Class pre dreadnaught battleship of the Royal Navy.

HMS Majestic of the Majestic Class battleships shown in old photographs was built at Portsmouth Dockyard and was commissioned in December 1895 for service in the Channel Squadron. HMS Majestic was the flagship of Vice-Admiral the Lord Walter T Kerr 1896. HMS Majestic was commissioned into the Atlantic Fleet from August 1906 but was commissioned into the reserve in October 1906. Before joining the Home Fleet (3rd Fleet) at Devonport in May 1912 she was refitted with radio and fire control equipment at Chatham Dockyard. In July 1912 she was involved in a collision with HMS Victorious. At the outbreak of World War I she was commissioned at Devonport for the 7th Battle Squadron in October 1914 she was involved in escorting Canadian troop convoys and in 1915 involved in the bombardment of the Belgian coast while serving with the Channel Fleet and Dover Patrol. She transferred to the Mediterranean and the Dardanelles Operation on 18th March 1915 she took part in the Dardanelles bombardments on 26th May she became flagship to Admiral Nicholson but within 24 hours was twice torpedoed by U-boat 21 during the bombardment off Gaba Tepe. She sank within 7 minutes but luckily having only 40 casualties.


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Original Chromolithograph, 1901. One Copy Only.	£75.00

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Original Pencil Drawing of Bf109s of JG52 - personally signed by Gunther Rall. An example of the unique gifts that can be found on our Christmas 2009 page. Price : £340

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Nicolas Trudgian Prints

Nicolas Trudgian is one of the world's foremost aviaiton artists. Cranston Fine Arts purchased all remaining stocks of his prints from his publisher around two years ago, and we are now the only source for the majority of his prints published before this time. You can see all the prints we have at our website www.nicolastrudgianprints.com where there is a full directory of all the prints.

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