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The Battlecruiser Force of the Grand Fleet in the Firth of Forth, with ships of the 5th Battle Squadron, 1918
Rough notes by the artist along the bottom of the watercolour area on the sheet identify most of the ships shown in this study. On the left are three battleships of the 5th Battle Squadron, the 'Barham', 'Malaya' and 'Valiant'. The battlecruisers are identified as 'Lion', 'Renown', 'Repulse', 'Tiger', 'Princess Royal', 'Inflexible', 'Indomitable', 'New Zealand' and 'Australia'. Steaming in the centre is the destroyer 'Verdun' which was completed in November 1917. The Forth Bridge is in the background. Wyllie has used the bottom of the sheet for colour testing and rough pencil sketches, one apparently of a destroyer (possibly 'Verdun').
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Object Details
| ID: | PAE2767 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | Drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wyllie, William Lionel |
| Places: | Firth of Forth |
| Vessels: | Princess Royal (1911); Verdun |
| Date made: | circa 1918 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection |
| Measurements: | 253 mm x 353 mm |
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