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To Read More About Jim Griffiths' U.S. Navy Ships of War Paintings 1 JIM GRIFFITHS -U.S. Navy Ships of War, 1898-1991 (Title/Image Size/Framed Size/Price/Painting Detail-Description) Forty Gouache Paintings depicting important vessels and naval actions from the Spanish American War to the first Iraq conflict. “Across the Sea of Storms” 12 ½” x 19”, 21 x 27”, $4,000 Liberty Ship, 1943 The painting depicts a well-worn Liberty ship plowing through heavy Atlantic seas headed for Europe (Britain) or Russia with much needed war material. In the distance can be seen several other ships in the convoy. While stormy weather was a peril, a greater danger was the threat of a U-boat attack; not until a ship was safely at anchor in port, would this latter threat be put aside but never forgotten. "Always Pushing Forward" 12 1/2 x 19 ¼”, 21 1/4"H x 27 1/4"L, $4,000 BB-40 USS New Mexico 1944 This painting depicts the US. Navy WW II battleship U.S.S. New Mexico (BB-40) at night under a full moon. She is in company with forces that are bound for Mindoro, the Philippines, where she will provide bombardment for the upcoming U.S. landings there sometime in mid-December, 1944. The ship is painted in a camouflage pattern called Ms. 32-6D, a pattern considered the best anti- submarine camouflage. It was designed to be used in areas where visibility was good and where it would be impossible to conceal a ship; at long distances this bold-contrast pattern produced low visibility where the pattern blurred to a uniform shade. Unfortunately, this scheme (and many of the other strong-contrast schemes applied to USN ships in 1944) was meant to counter the Japanese submarine threat, which turned out to be almost non- existent. However, these same schemes, when viewed from the air, had the ship(s) stick out “like sore thumbs” against the dark blue of the Pacific. And as the Japanese were replying on aircraft for most of their attacks in late 1944 and throughout 1945, the US Navy hastily began repainting all their ships in dark Navy Blue to try and offer some concealment against this threat. The New Mexico earned 6 Battle Stars for her service in the Pacific from 1942 until the end of the war. She was hit twice by Kamikaze suicide planes: once in Jan.,’45, off of Luzon, the Philippines, and again in May, ‘45 when approaching her anchorage in Hagushi. She survived both attacks and was present in Tokyo Bay for the formal Japanese surrender in Sept., 1945. With the war over, she and many other gallant warships, returned to the U.S. to be deactivated, then decommissioned, and eventually sold for scrap. "Always Ready" 12 1/2 x 19”, 21 3/4"H x 27 1/4"L, $4,000 CVA-66 USS America Mid-1980's The painting depicts the U.S. Navy super carrier USS America (DVA-66) at speed under the light of a partially obscured full moon. On her flight deck can be seen some of the dozens of jet aircraft that make up her air wing. Off to port can be seen another member of the carrier's battle group, an Aegis- class cruiser. The aircraft carriers of the U.S. Navy perform their important peacekeeping missions all 2 around the globe without much publicity. Whenever there is a need to project power, it is usually one or more of these carriers that is called upon to do the job. Since her keel laying in 1961, her launching in 1963, and her commissioning in 1964, USS America has made three combat tours to Vietnam and has deployed to the Mediterranean, as well as almost all the oceans of the world. She saw duties in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. After 40 years of service the ship was slated for decommissioning sometime in the 2005-06 time period. She was not to be scrapped; rather she was to be a test bed to see just how one of these super carriers would hold up when under attack from a variety of lethal modern weaponry. After 4 weeks of testing, and despite a large protest by former crew members to save the ship and make her a museum memorial, she was scuttled southeast of Cape Hatteras. She is the largest warship ever to be sunk. "The Arizona in '38" 12 x 19”, 20 3/4"H x 27 1/4"L, $4,000 BB-39 USS Arizona The painting depicts the U.S.N. battleship ARIZONA (BB-39) in mid to late 1938. She is on fleet manoeuvers in the Pacific. Off her starboard beam is the carrier U.S.S. SARATOGA (CA-3), distinguished by the vertical black stripe painted on her funnel. ARIZONA was built in the Brooklyn Naval Yard and launched in 1915 with her commissioning in October, 1917. She was armed with twelve 14-inch guns in 4 turrets; she also had numerous secondary 5-inch and 3-inch guns. In 1929, ARIZONA underwent a major 2-year overhaul. Her loss came on December 7, 1941, when she was sunk, at anchor, by Japanese carrier aircraft. She remains to this day a memorial to all those who fought in the Pacific in WWII. "Back from the Hunt" 12 1/2 x 19”, 21 3/4"H x 27 13/16"L, $4,000 CVE-21 USS Block Island & TBF Avenger from VC-55 – 1944 The painting depicts VC-55 TBF-1 Avengers returning to their carrier, the USS Block Island (CVE-21), in late April, 1944 the aircraft have been out for many hours flying pre-arranged flight patterns over the Atlantic in search of German U-boats. The Block Island was the main ship in this particular hunter-killer group. A hunter-killer group usually consisted of 4 destroyer escorts and one small escort carrier that carried anywhere from 16 to 21 aircraft that were split between TBF/M Avengers and FM-2 Wildcats. Each hunter-killer group was assigned a particular area of the Atlantic Ocean and spent day and night searching for enemy submarines. The aircraft, (often stripped of weaponry in order to carry more gasoline for longer missions) would head out from the carrier and fly search patterns; should they find a U-boat, they would report back and stay in the area, if fuel permitted, until the DE's arrived. The DE’s would then begin a hunt using sonar to try and locate the submerged sub. If contact was made, then they would attack using depth charges and rockets, called "Hedge Hogs" to try and destroy the U-boat. "The Barroom Brawl" 9 7/8 x 21 3/8”, 19” x 30”, $4,000 CA-38 USS San Francisco at 3rd Battle of Savo Island November, 1942 3 In November, 1942, the war in the Pacific centered around the island of Guadalcanal. American and Japanese forces fought desperately for control of this strategic island and the waters around it. In the early morning hours of Friday, November 13, 1942, U.S. and Japanese naval forces ran into each other on the dark waters of Iron bottom Sound. A beefed-up Tokyo Express of 2 Japanese battleships, a cruiser and 14 destroyers (on their way to bombard and destroy Henderson Field and all the US Marines there) ran into an American force of 4 cruisers and 8 destroyers. The ensuing battle was officially known as: "Guadalcanal-The Third Battle of Savo Island". However, to the American sailors who survived the fight, it was simply known as "The Barroom Brawl because of the desperate nature of the wild, unplanned melee that was fought in the black darkness. As noted naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison wrote of this fight: "Four bells of this sinister midwatch struck at the height of the battle. An infernal spectacle presented itself to the survivors. Greenish light from flares and star shell dimmed that of the silent stars. Red and white trails of tracer arched and crisscrossed overhead, magazines exploded in blinding bouquets of white flame, oil-fed fires sent up twisted columns of yellow flame and black smoke. Around the horizon smoldering hulks of abandoned ships now glowed dull red, now blazed up when fires reached fresh combustibles. Geyers from shells that missed their targets rose from the surface of the sea, now fouled with oil and flotsam." The painting depicts the USS SAN FRANCISCO (CA 38), flagship of Admiral Callaghan and of Task Force 67.4, illuminated in the beam of a Japanese searchlight. The ship would survive the battle, at times engaging the enemy from both sides of the ship, as depicted here in the painting. On the left side of the painting can be seen the Japanese battleship HIEI burning furiously, to the right of the HIEI, on the horizon is a burning Japanese destroyer, to its right is an American destroyer firing on the HIEI, and to the right of the SAN FRANCISCO is the burning hull of a US destroyer. Overhead are the descending star shells and stabbing beams of searchlights, some cloaked by the twisted columns of rising smoke. Tracer fire crisscrosses everywhere and plumes of water rise explosively into the night sky. SAN FRANCISCO would suffer from over 45 enemy shell hits and the loss of Admiral Callaghan and all the bridge staff. The task group would lose 2 light cruisers and 4 destroyers against 2 Japanese destroyers and the battleship HIEI, so seriously damaged that US forces sank it the next day.
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