Painting

The Loss of HMS Captain - September 1870

General Memorabilia (cont)

Paintings - there is a small selection of paintings of HMS Captain in its short life, some of which are shown below.

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This is a copy of a postcard, one of a series known as the "Marine-Galerie" series, produced in the early 20th century by German painter Professor Christopher Rave. According to Wikipedia, Rave was a popular painter of naval art, living in Hamburg. Between 1900 and 1909 he created about 300 paintings, many (if not all) being reproduced as postcards.

Misfortune seemed to follow him - in 1910 he was a passenger of a tall ship which ran aground off Dover; and in 1912 he was one of just seven survivors (out of eighteen on board) on an expedition to Spitsbergen.

Having cancer of the throat, he shot himself in 1933.

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Shipbucket' drawing

Not really memorabilia, but not sure where else to display this attractive drawing of HMS Captain.

I quote from their website - http://shipbucket.com

"What is Shipbucket?

Shipbucket is a collective group effort to compile a database of ship profiles (drawings) primarily of real life naval vessels depicted inaa common style and at a common scale of 2 pixels to 1 foot.

It was created by a growing community of naval enthusiast volunteers. The group is generaly open to anyone who wants to contribute highly accurate and detailed line drawings of the world's naval vessels (of any time period) in a uniform scale and style."

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This painting was by William Frederick Mitchell

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -

William Frederick Mitchell 1845 – 1914, was a British artist commissioned to paint various ships of the Royal Navy. His collected works were original published in The Royal Navy in a series of illustrations. He has many works in the National Maritime Museum collection in England. He lived most of his life near Portsmouth and painted pictures of ships for their officers and owners. His works are numbered and run to more than 3,500. He wrote a short autobiography for the 1904 May/June issue of The Messenger, a magazine for the deaf, in which he describes how scarlet fever deprived him of his hearing, but at home his father, a Royal Navy Coastguard stationed at Calshot Castle, taught him to speak. His autobiography also relates his move to Ryde, on the Isle of Wight, shortly after marriage to Miss Woodman in 1881, and claims Queen Victoria, King Edward VII[when Prince of Wales], The German Emperor, and the Russian Grand Duke Michoelovitch amongst his patrons.