• PAUL WRIGHT, RSMA — HMS Valiant off Salerno; 16th September 1943
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PAUL WRIGHT, RSMA (British, born 1947)

"HMS Valiant off Salerno, 16th September 1943"

"HMS Valiant off Salerno, 16th September 1943"

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Acrylic on Paper

13 x 17 1/4 inches (33 x 44 cm)

Signed, lower left

Cover picture: “British Battleships 1939-45 (1)”, Osprey Publishing 2009

HMS Valiant had a long and very distinguished career. A veteran of Jutland, she was extensively refitted before the start of World War II, serving off Norway in 1940 and in the attack on the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir. Joining the Mediterranean Fleet in May, 1941, she was damaged off Crete and again in Alexandria, this time due to a midget submarine attack.

Following repairs Valiant joined the Eastern Fleet and the Home Fleet before returning to the Mediterranean in summer 1943.

On the 15th September (D+6) Valiant and her sister ship HMS Warspite provided naval gunfire support during the amphibious landings at Salerno, Valiant covering the British sector. The bombardmant continued the folowing day but on the afternoon of the 176th Warspite was hit by a German glider bomb. Despite the danger, Valiant continued to support the troops until nightfall, when she was able to steam away safely in darkness.

Paul Wright has painted HMS Valiant as she would have looked that afternoon, firing her fearsome 15-inch guns at enemy targets around the town of Nocera, between Salerno and Naples.

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