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]

Object Details

ID: PAF1876
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