• PAUL WRIGHT, RSMA — The Final Hours: HMS Vanguard at Scapa Flow; 9th July 1917
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PAUL WRIGHT, RSMA (British, born 1947)

"The Final Hours: HMS Vanguard at Scapa Flow, 9th July 1917"

"The Final Hours: HMS Vanguard at Scapa Flow, 9th July 1917"

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Acrylic on Paper

8 x 13 inches (20 x 33 cm)

Signed, lower left

Illustrated in :“British Battleships 1914-18 (1)" The Early Dreadnoughts, Osprey Publishing, 2013

HMS Vanguard was a St Vincent-class dreadnought and therefore only a minor variation from the original Dreadnought herself.

Following Jutland, where she fired eight salvoes as part of the 4th Battle Squadron, Vanguard returned to her wartime anchorage in Scapa Flow. From here she conducted sweeps of the North Sea.

This exceptional painting by Paul Wright shows Vanguard on her last day. On the 9th of July 1917 the ship had been undertaking routine exercises and had anchored at 18.30 in her usual spot – B5 - off the island of Flotta. Then at 23.20, without any warning, Vanguard blew up. All but two of her 806-man crew were killed and the terrible accident was almost certainly the result of an explosion in one of her main magazines.

Here, in conditions of great tranquillity belying the disaster that follows, we see Vanguard anchored alongside the dreadnought HMS Neptune. The view is to the west and the coast of Orphir on the Orkney mainland is seen in the background.

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