HISTORIC Doxford's
turret ship Skandia in 1899 WAR WORK King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit Doxford's in 1941 GLORY DAYS Left, the Sir James Laing & Sons ship Sheaf Wear in 1969.
'Last year a print by Vorticist and war artist Edward Wadsworth's
Turret Ship in a Dry Dock (Greenwood W/D 38), 1918, sold for 114,000 [pounds sterling] (estimate 10,000 [pounds sterling]-15,000 [pounds sterling]), the second highest price for a Modern British work since the record was set by a Hockney screen print in the mid 80s' (Fig.
The fourth HMS Edinburgh, a steel-plated
turret ship completed in 1887, served with the Mediterranean Fleet.
? A PLAQUE was unveiled at Cammell Laird shipyard in honour of one of Peru's most celebrated naval figures, Almirante Miguel Grau, who became a national hero for his bravery commanding Huascar, a
turret ship built at Birkenhead in 1865.
In an adjacent basin connected to the Nieuwe Maas (a waterway leading to the Rhine), the substantial ship collection includes the
turret ship Buffel, sailing vessels, coasters, and harbor and seagoing tugs.
The failed launch in July 1905 of the
turret ship 'Quiloa', built by William Doxford & Sons
Although still very much considered modern in 1906, it was in the last group of monitors (single gun
turret ships) to be constructed for the U.S.