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The former German battleship 'Baden', listing and under fire as a gunnery target on the Dean Sand, Spithead, 1921
Signed by the artist and inscribed 'Dean Sand/ Target practice on the German battleship Baden', lower right. For the circumstances of this ship's internment and subsequent use as a British gunnery target, 1918-21, see PAF1872. This shows her with a list to starboard and smoking from the bow during one of the target days, when she was anchored off the Dean Sand on the north-east side of Spithead. See also PAE2736, PAE3133, PAF1873 and PAF1877. [BTodd/PvdM 5/13]
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Object Details
| ID: | PAF1876 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | Drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wyllie, William Lionel |
| Vessels: | Baden (1915) |
| Date made: | 1921 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 290 x 453 mm |
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