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HMS Blanche - World Naval Ships Directory

HMS Blanche
Name : HMS Blanche
Laid Down :
Launched : 6th September 1885
Completed :
Type : Cruiser
Class : Barracouta
Builder : Pembroke
Country : UK
Pennants :
Fate : Sold 11th July 1905.

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HMS Blanche, July 1905.

Timeline Entries :


6th October 1889 - Launched
18th March 1890 - Sailed Plymouth for contractors trials
30th April 1890 - Sailed Plymouth for engine trials
17th September 1890 - Sailed Plymouth for full speed trials
15th December 1890 - Commissioned at Plymouth for service in the East Indies
30th December 1890 - Delayed sailing to the East Indies Station due to serious scrwe defects
14th February 1891 - Cdr. Lindley in Command
14th February 1891 - Carried out basin trials
17th February 1891 - Underwent a three hourtrial off Plymouth
26th February 1891 - Sailed Plymouth
5th March 1891 - At anchor off Corunna
4th April 1891 - Arrived Port Said
6th April 1891 - Cdr. G.R. Lindley in Command
1892 - Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station
1893 - Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station
1894 - Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station
9th January 1896 - At Plymouth, A Division, Reserve Fleet
1897 - Mediterranean and Red Sea Fleet
1901 - Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station
1902 - Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station
1903 - Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station
1904 - South Atlantic Station
1905 - Sold

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First Added : 14:25, January 19, 2011
By : kc

 

 

AVIATION PRINTS

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Aircraft number 2247, flown by Lt McElroy, attacks the Yokosuka Yard near Tokyo. He was one of the 18 B25 Mitchell bombers which took part in the famous retaliatory raid on Japan.

Doolittle Raider, Tokyo, April 18th 1942 by David Pentland.
Half Price! - £50.00 		Two Fairey Firefly fighter-bombers of 810 Sqn, Fleet Air Arm, overfly the carrier HMS Theseus during the Korean War.

HMS Theseus by Ivan Berryman.
Half Price! - £15.00 		The heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen slips quietly through the waters of Kiel Harbour as one of her own Arado Ar.196s flies overhead. In the background, Bismarck, wearing her Baltic camouflage, is alongside taking on supplies.

Prinz Eugen by Ivan Berryman.
Half Price! - £15.00 		B129. Concorde over Manhattan by Ivan Berryman.

Concorde over Manhattan by Ivan Berryman.
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Despite crippling damage to their Lancaster ED925 (G), the crew of AJ-M continued to press home their attack on the Mohne Dam on the night of 16th/17th May 1943. With both port engines ablaze, Flt Lt J V Hopgood forced his blazing aircraft on, releasing the Upkeep bomb just precious seconds too late to strike the dam, the mine instead bouncing over the wall and onto the power station below with devastating results. ED925 attempted to recover from the maelstrom, but the fuel fire was too intense and the aircraft was tragically lost, just two of her crew managing to escape the impact to spend the rest of the war as PoWs.

No Way Back by Ivan Berryman.
Half Price! - £30.00 		Dedicated to those who served and died in the Battle of Britain on the ground and in the air during the summer of 1940.

A Nation Alone by Ivan Berryman.
Half Price! - £50.00 		Dakota G-AMPZ (formerly KN442) of Air Atlantique resplendent in the commemorative livery of RAF Transport Command heads out across the English coast, back to Berlin? Still flying more than 50 years after serving valiantly on the Berlin Airlift, this aircraft carries out the bulk of the airlines passenger charters. These prints are signed by the current crew.
Perpetual Motion II by Robert Tomlin.
Half Price! - £55.00 		Lancaster CF-X (LM384) of 625 Squadron. On the Leipzig raid on the evening of 19th/20th February 1944 approx 47 Lancasters were shot down or failed to return, that is over 300 airmen. Lancaster CF-X (LM384) was taking part in the bombing raids that were a build up to the D-Day landings of June 1944. Leipzig was seen as a high value target due to its oil and synthetic fuel production. The Lancaster took off from Kelstern in Lincolnshire just before midnight. Unfortunately LM384 did not come back as was the case with many others - the aircraft was lost and crashed just outside the tiny village of Bledeln in Germany. The Pastor of the village, Herr Duncker, kept a diary throughout the war and has an account of the plane crash and the subsequent burial of the crew. All of the crew died in the crash except one - bomb aimer George Paterson who was interned in Stalag 357 Kopernikus. The rest of the crew were given a Christian burial and stayed there until the end of the war, when the war graves commission disinterred the crew and reburied them in the Hannover war cemetery.

Last Long Shadow by Anthony Saunders (AP)
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NAVAL PRINTS

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T class submarine HMS Thorn surfaces during the work up exercises off the west coast of Scotland in late 1941. Taking part is an escort sloop of the Black Swan class and a Sunderland from 201 Squadron, RAF Coastal Command.

Working Up by Robert Barbour.
Half Price! - £30.00 		HMS Ark Royal after a recent refit, rejoins the fleet in 2001.

HMS Ark Royal by Ivan Berryman.
Half Price! - £15.00 		The E-class light cruiser HMS Emerald is shown off the Newfoundland coast in company with a Flower class corvette. Between October 1939 and August 1940, HMS Emerald carried £58 million in gold from Britain to Canada.

HMS Emerald by Ivan Berryman.
Half Price! - £15.00 		B216P. HMS Colossus by Ivan Berryman. Together with her sister ship, Hercules, HMS Colossus acquitted herself well at the Battle of Jutland where she fired 93 12in rounds, but received only two hits from enemy fire which caused minor damage and left nine crew injured. She was sold for scrap in 1928.

HMS Colossus by Ivan Berryman (P)
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B65. HMS King George V by Ivan Berryman.

HMS King George V by Ivan Berryman.
Half Price! - £15.00 		HMS Vanguard in company with HMS Indefatigable.

HMS Vanguard by Ivan Berryman. (P)
Half Price! - £500.00 		HMS Coventry comes under air attack from aircraft off Tobruk, 14th September 1942. As well as losing the anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Coventry, the Allies also lost HMS Zulu and six coastal craft sunk by bombing as they were returning from Tobruk. HMS Coventry was rated as one of the most effective anti-aircraft ships in the entire British navy, downing more aircraft than any other ship.

HMS Coventry by Ivan Berryman (AP)
Half Price! - £25.00 		Type 21 frigate HMS Ambuscade (F172) is shown passing the swing bridge as she enters Taranto Harbour.

HMS Ambuscade by Ivan Berryman (AP)
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MILITARY PRINTS

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Battle of Rivoli by Felix Philipoteaux. (Y)
Half Price! - £30.00 		DHM471. Charles I on His Way to Execution by Ernest Crofts.
Charles I on His Way to Execution by Ernest Crofts.
Half Price! - £25.00 		English soldiers search a blacksmiths hunting for highlanders who fled from after the battle of Culloden.
After Culloden, Rebel Hunting by J.S. Lucas.
Half Price! - £45.00 		Sous-Lieutenant Ferdinand de la Riloisiere of 1st Regiment of Carabiniers, moments before he received a mortal wound, in the charge of the 2nd reserve cavalry Corps, against the reavski Redoubt. Despite his injury he survived for several days after the battle and was presented with the cross of the Legion of Honour only hours before his death.

La Moscowa, The Battle of Borodino, 7th September 1812 by Mark Churms. (B)
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British troops on exercise or on duty in Northern Ireland.

Orders Group by John Wynne Hopkins.
Half Price! - £50.00 		Portraits of Sir Thomas Fairfax and Prince Rupert of the Rhine. Sir Thomas Fairfax (1612-71) Captain general of the Parliamentary New Model Army and his opponent Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619-82) nephew of King Charles 1st and general of Royalist Horse. Centre section of the painting depicts cavalry engagement during the battle of Marston Moor.

Opposing Generals of Horse - Battle of Marston Moor by Chris Collingwood. (Y)
Half Price! - £50.00 		Renault FT 17 baby tanks of the recently formed US 304th tank brigade commanded by the young Lt. Col George S. Patton Jnr. are employed for the first time during the allied assault on the St Mihiel Salient. Leading the 344th battalion in person Patton and his tanks help the infantry divisions push the enemy back to the Hindenberg line in only 4 days.

Baptism of Fire - St Mihiel Salient, 12th – 15th September 1918 by David Pentland. (GS)
Half Price! - £250.00 		The six-pounder guns of Captain C.D. Sillerys Company, 7th Battalion Royal Artillery were in the centre of the British line, firing round shot and case shot into the advancing columns of French infantry.

The Battle of Talavera, 27th-28th July 1809 by David Rowlands (GS)
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SPORT PRINTS

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SPC5008. Neil Lennon by Gary Brandham.

Neil Lennon by Gary Brandham.
Half Price! - £47.00 		B49. Damon Hill/ Williams FW.17 by Ivan Berryman

Damon Hill/ Williams FW.17 by Ivan Berryman
Half Price! - £40.00 		David Coulthard. McLaren Mercedes MP4/13
A Scottish Gentleman by Michael Thompson.
Half Price! - £25.00 		SP4. Desert Orchid by Mark Churms.

Desert Orchid by Mark Churms.
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MC0041P. Blitzkrieg by Mark Churms.

Blitzkrieg by Mark Churms. (P)
Half Price! - £1250.00 		Sir Bobby played more than 750 games for Manchester United, scoring 247 goals. He also played 106 times for his country and scored a record 49 goals. One of only two Englishmen to have won World Cup and European Cup medals his name will always remain synonymous with some of the greatest moments in the English game.

Sir Bobby Charlton by Gary Keane. (Y)
Half Price! - £60.00 		Ferrari F310. 1996.
Eddie Irvine by Michael Thompson.
Half Price! - £25.00 		Michael Schumacher wins again!

From Pole to Flag by Graham Bosworth
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