Title: Momentum
Year Created: 2008
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size Width: 70 cm
Size Height: 50 cm
Size Depth: 2 cm
Theme: Marine
Price: request price
Description: This painting is of HMS Royal Oak and is taken from an early black and white areial photograph when she was on exercise during WW1. She was one of five 'R' class battleships which saw service in both world wars. She was sunk at Scapa Flow on 14th October 1939 in a daring U boat attack. There was great loss life and she is now a war grave. The title could have been Full Helm but I have called it Momentum as it reflects the great forces applied when a vessel of 27500 tons is driven like a speedboat!
Thank you for sharing this TomLL. The HMS RO is very close to my heart as my step-grandfather was one of the 834 men (and boys) who was killed on it when she was sunk. He was 1st Class Stoker Albert Alfred Park (P/K 59438). As a boy, I recall my Dad talking a lot about this (Dad would have been 13 when his step-father was killed on the RO). May they all RIP.
