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INVITED on board the Trident submarine HMS Vengeance, Gosport artist Andy Wing produced a lighthearted cutaway drawing of life on board a 'bomber', of which a detail is shown here. He took as his inspiration the well-known humorous silhouettes produced by the late Cdr Alfred Hughes - also a keen naturalist who illustrated several books on birds. The Bomber \s available from Stoke Gallery, 175-177 Stoke Road, Gosport, Hants as a 84cm X 29cm print (£17.50), mounted (£32.50) or (£62) all including pp in the UK.
Painting helped paralysed Tony to master stroke A FORMER Royal Navy sailor who learned to paint pictures in pastel with his left hand after his right was paralysed by a stroke is exhibiting his work in Hampshire next month. Tony Spencer (66) joined the RN from an orphanage in 1950, serving for ten years and leaving as an acting yeoman of 'signals. Then, at the age of 49 he suffered a stroke which paralysed his right side. He told Navy News: "After a frustrating period 1 got myself together and learnt to use my left hand. From this came the idea of learning to paint. This I've done with my left hand, although my right hand has more or less come hack to normal." Tony's paintings are works of quality by any standard, many of them reflecting his Naval service and his love of the sea on which he still sails for pleasure. The works on view at his 'Shades of Pastel 2000' exhibition at Homewell House, Havant, on August 4-6, will include paintings of warships, tall ships, yachts, seascapes and landscapes. Among them is one of HM submarine Affray which was lost with all hands in 1951, and a portrait of the New Zealand tall ship Eye of the Wind, which Tony sketched while sailing his catamaran. Homewell House, the local HQ of the Conservative Association is at the rear of St Faith's Church. It is Tony's fifth exhibition and and he says that most of the paintings will be on sale at reasonable prices. • Detail from 'Invincible', by Tony Spencer (inset), now owned by Rear Admiral Roy Clare, her former CO and now Director of the National Maritime Museum.
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FOUR CDs of historic Naval documents have been produced by a Portsmouth company working with the City Library. Realvision Imaging Solutions have so far copied the Navy Lists of May, 1805 and August, 1914, the Marines List of 1834 and a Photographic History of Portsmouth Dockyard 1900-20 compiled by Mark Pcscott Frost. Lottery money has been applied for by the Naval Libraries & Museums Consortium with a view to eventually recording the entire Navy List in this manner. The CDs require no special software to be viewed and each carries an index to assist with browsing. The 1805 Navy List was the last to be published before Trafalgar while the 1834 Marines List gives a fascinating insight into the world of the Marines, complete with pay scale details. The 1914 Navy List, published on the very eve of war, gives a full listing of British and Commonwealth Naval and Marine officers. Details are given of ancillary support establishments such as Training Stations, Coastguards, airfields, hospitals, colleges and orphanages. All are available at £9.95 from RIS at Suite 407, Victory House, Somers Road North, Portsmouth PO I 1PJ.
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