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'American Minesweepers cheering British battleships. [at] Scapa', 1918
Inscribed by the artist, as title, lower left. From left to right the ships in this drawing are an 'Iron Duke'-class battleship, the US minelayer 'Aroostook' (1907, ex-mercantile 'Bunker Hill'), another 'Iron Duke'-class battleship, a US auxiliary minelayer, a 'Queen Elizabeth'-class battleship and the US auxiliary minelayer 'Canonicus (1899, ex-mercantile 'El Cid'). The drawing is of a celebration at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys of the end of the First World War in November or very early December 1918, since the American ships sailed from Portland (Dorset) for home on 11 December.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAF0911 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | Drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wyllie, William Lionel |
| Places: | Unlinked place |
| Date made: | circa 1918 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 266 mm x 424 mm |
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