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Naval Art Postcards by Anthony Saunders |
  | Hotspur by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | HMS Hotspur is shown on Convoy protection duties during 1942 / 1943. HMS Hotspur, the H class destroyer, was built by Scotts at Greenock and launched 23rd March 1936. Participated in the first Battle of Narvik, April 1940 and the Battle of Cape Matap...... | |
  | Pedestal Convoy by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | The Pedestal Convoy of August 1942 was one of the most heavily protected convoys in the history of sea warfare. Fourteen of the fastest cargo ships of the time were protected by 4 carriers, 2 battleships, 7 cruisers and 32 destroyers. The destroyer...... | |
  | USS Hornet, Eye of the Storm by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Late October 1942 in the waters east of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Santa Cruz saw the sinking of the US carrier Hornet, in what proved to be the last major carrier battle of the South Pacific theatre. ...... | |
  | USS North Carolina ,Saipan Bound by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | By June 1944 the US Fleet had made a huge leap across the Pacific to the Marianas, a small group of Japanese held islands of which Saipan would prove the most difficult to overcome. The landing were supported by the US 5th Fleet, which included USS N...... | |
  | USS Indiana, First Tour of Duty by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | To increase the strength of the US fleet in the Pacific during the critical early months of the war, USS Indiana went through the Panama Canal. On the 28th of November 1942 USS Indiana joined Rear Admiral Lee's aircraft carrier screening force. ...... |
  | Raid on Taranto by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | The balance of maritime power in the Mediterranean was transformed at a stroke by the British air attack which disabled three Italian battleships in a few minutes. The target was the core of Mussolinis fleet, tucked away in Taranto Harbour, in south...... | |
  | Enter the Prince by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | P520. Enter the Prince by Anthony Saunders. ...... | |
  | The Narvik Squadron by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | The Last of the heavy Cruisers built by Germany (5 in total) The picture shows Admiral Hipper making her first sortie on the 18th February 1940, accompanied by the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau on Operation Nordmark. (Search for allied convoys on th...... | |
  | The Arctic Run by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Artic Convoy. Forcing their way through adverse conditions bordering on the limitations of human endurance, The Allied convoys faced appalling odds of survival in the endeavour to supply raw materials to Russias only ice free port of Murmansk. ...... | |
  | HMS Ramillies and HMS Warspite at Normandy by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | HMS Ramillies and Warspite manoeuvre into position off the coast of Normandy. The major battleships of the Home Fleet, with their massive guns which could deliver gunfire with pinpoint accuracy to 17 miles. they proved invaluable on the day of the b...... |
  | USS Colorado Okinawa by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | The USS Colorado holds the all time record of 37 consecutive days of firing at an enemy and the record of 24 direct enemy air attacks in 62 days both while at Okinawa. ...... | |
  | USS Tennessee During the Landings at Iwo Jima by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | In February 1945, 850 square miles of volcanic rock became the most strategically important island in the South Pacific. From Iwo Jima heavy bombers would be able to raid Japanese cities almost at will. Even with its overwhelming military might, the...... | |
  | Storm Force to the Falklands by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | HMS Broadsword and the aircraft carrier Hermes battle their way through the storm on their way to the Battle for the Falklands. ...... | |
  | Pearl Harbor, USS California, by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | At dawn on the 7th December 1941, 350 Japanese warplanes flew from their carriers and attacked the US pacific fleet at Pearl harbor, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. the attack concentrated on Battleship Row which included USS California (Left) and US...... | |
  | U-203 Under Cover of Darkness by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | October 1941, U203 approaches her mooring on the western bank at the French port of Brest. Her fate would be sealed by depth charges from the destroyer HMS Pathfinder and aircraft from the escort carrier HMS Biter while attacking the convoy ONS 4 so...... |
  | Dawn Enterprise by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | The first light of dawn silhouettes the massive outline of the Yorktown class carrier USS Enterprise, in mid April 1944 she was partnered by the new Essex Class carrier USS Lexington. ...... | |
  | USS Iowa leaving New York by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | BB61 Iowa, was commissioned in February 1943 at the New York Navy yard. her first mission was to the North Atlantic in August 1943 to neutralise the threat of the German Battleship Tirpitz. By early 1944 she joined the Pacific fleet taking part in m...... | |
  | Das Boote by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Lother Gunther Buchheim based his famous novel The Boat on his voyage aboard U96 in the early days of World War Two. During this operation on 13th February 1941, U96 sank the straggling tanker, Arthur F Conwin, which had dropped back from the westb...... | |
  | U-201 Deadly Chase by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | 17th February 1943, U-201 with U-69 were ordered to intercept the westbound convoy ONS165. With fuel low U-201 was eventually forced to surface following a depth charge attack and rammed by the Destroyer HMS Fame. ...... | |
  | USS Baltimore and Saratoga in the Pacific by Anthony Saunders (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | In February 1944, USS Baltimore and Saratoga make up part of the formidable Task Force 58, forcing their way through the central pacific to attack the Japanese bases in the Marshal Islands in support of Operation Flintlock. ...... |
  | Operation Drumbeat by Anthony Saunders (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | The entry of the United States into the war opened up vast new hunting grounds for the German u-boat fleet. Operation Paukenschlag (Drumbeat in English) began in January 1942, bringing the U-boats their easiest pickings of the war. Over 300 allied ve...... | |
  | Wolves at Saint Nazaire by Anthony Saunders (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Portrayed in the southern lock at the French port of Saint Nazaire during the Autumn of 1941 are from left: U552, commanded by Kapitanleutnant Erich Topp, U567, commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Engelbert Endrass and U93, commanded by Oberleutnant zu...... | |
  | USS Yorktown at the Battle of Midway by Anthony Saunders (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | USS Yorktown seen accompanied by her destroyers including USS Hammann shown under attack by Japanese Torpedo Bombers (Kates) during the battle of Midway. It was in this action that USS Yorktown was lost. ...... | |
  | Nelsons Victory at Trafalgar by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Undoubtedly the most famous and decisive battle in the history of naval warfare. The battle of Trafalgar was fought on a calm, almost windless day, on 21st October 1805. Nelsons revolutionary battle plan was to cut apart the larger Franco-Spanish f...... | |
  | Battle of the Nile by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | On the 1st of August 1798, thirteen French ships of the line sat anchored in Aboukir Bay off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, in support of Napoleon who was inland with his troops attempting to conquer the country. As nighttime approached so did Lord...... |
  | The Battle of Jutland, HMS Royal Oak by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | The Battle of Jutland was fought in the North Sea between the 31st May and the 1st of June 1916. The British Grand Fleet had been virtually unopposed for nearly a century but now there was a challenge to the throne; the German Navy. Although smaller...... | |
  | Arctic guardian - USS Washington by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | In the spring of 1942, USS Washington was the first of Americas fast battleship fleet to participate in combat operations when she was briefly assigned to the Royal Navy. On 28th June 1942, together with HMS Duke of York, HMS Victorious and an accom...... | |
  | Escort for the Troops - USS New York by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | The Atlantic ocean was the lifeline between Britain and America, as well as millions of tons of raw materials, GIs were also transported over in all manor of hastily converted liners. Protecting the troops from marauding u-boats and German surface s...... | |
  | Dawn Rendezvous by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Germanys U-boat fleet had almost brought Britain to its knees in the First World war, twenty years later the story was very similar. the German U-boat arm came perilously close to cutting the lifeline that crossed the Atlantic between North America ...... | |
  | Battle of Tsushima by Anthony Saunders (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Japanese Torpedo destroyers, rush in to finish off the Russian battleships near the end of the Battle of Tsushima....... |
  | Battle of Tsushima, Line of Battle by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | The flag ship Mikasa (Admiral Togo) leading the line at around 3pm on May 27th, 1905. Ships following are Shikishima and Fuji with other ships of the fleet further in the distance....... | |
  | Bismarck - The Final Voyage by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | One of the finest battleships of all time, Bismarck was built by the Blohm and Voss shipyard in Hamburg and launched in February 1939. Her first duty was for commerce raiding in the north Atlantic. Together with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, the de...... | |
  | HMS Hood - Operation Catapult by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | The pride of the British fleet, The Mighty Hood as she was known, was launched in 1918. Weighing in at over 40,000 tons she was 860 feet long and had eight 15 inch guns, at her launch she was more than a match for any adversary. Hood sailed the worl...... | |
  | Night of the Hunter USS Wahoo by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Known as the Silent Service, the men of the United States Submarine Force were the unsung heroes of the US Navy. In World War Two, Submarine Force alone was responsible for sinking over fifty percent of Japanese Shipping - but the success came at a...... | |
  | SMS Lutzow at the Opening of the Battle of Jutland by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Admiral Hippers flagship SMS Lutzow followed by Derfflinger and Seydlitz. Also seen in the painting are Moltke and Von der Tann. ...... |
  | Boiling Point - USS Missouri by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Launched on the 29th of January 1944, USS Missouri was the last and one of the finest battleships of any fleet. With a top speed of 33 knots, she earnt the name Fast Battleship, as the Iowa class to which she belonged were known. Bristling with an ...... | |
  | HMS Barham leads the 5th Battle Squadon at Jutland by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | The greatest naval battle of the First World War took place on the 31st of May and the 1st of June 1916, near the Danish province of Jutland. It was the first and only sea battle between the British and German fleets, and certainly proved to be the ...... |
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