Ivan Berryman Naval Art Prints of HMS Formidable

HMS Formidable naval art prints by Ivan Berryman. Gallery of aircraft carrier prints by Ivan Berryman depicting HMS Formidable. This gallery features all prints and originals by Ivan Berryman which include HMS Formidable.

HMS Formidable the Illustrious class Aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, Built by Harland and Wolff, and launched 17th August 1939 and commissioned 24th November 1940, When she joined the Navy she replaced HMS Illustrious in the Mediterranean in early 1941.One of her aircraft torpedoed and damaged the Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto on the 28tjh march 1941. her aircraft also contributed to the destruction of three Italian Cruisers the following day during the Battle of Matapan. by torpedoing the Cruiser Pola with a torpedo allowing the British Battleships to finish her off. On the 26th may 1941 HMS Formidable was damaged by two 1,000 KG bombs due to this damage she was out of action for 6 months. She continued in service in the Mediterranean until joining the Home fleet at the end of 1944. after which she joined the Far East fleet in 1945. In May 1945 she was hit by a Kamikaze nut not seriously damaged. After the war she was placed in the reserve fleet in 1947 finally being sold in 1953 and scrapped in November 1956 at Inverkeithing

Displacement: 23,000 tons, Speed: 30.5 knots, Range: 11,000 nautical miles at 14 knots.

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Original Pencil Drawing of Bf109s of JG52 - personally signed by Gunther Rall. An example of the unique gifts that can be found on our Christmas 2009 page. Price : £340

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Featured Artist - Nicolas Trudgian

Nicolas Trudgian Prints

Nicolas Trudgian is one of the world's foremost aviaiton artists. Cranston Fine Arts purchased all remaining stocks of his prints from his publisher around two years ago, and we are now the only source for the majority of his prints published before this time. You can see all the prints we have at our website www.nicolastrudgianprints.com where there is a full directory of all the prints.

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