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Manned entirely by volunteers, British and American submarines
saw action in every maritime theatre during the great conflict
of 1939-1945, the crews fighting their solitary, stealthy, secret
war with courage and nerves of steel. Robert Taylor's evocative
painting Secret Operation captures the menacing beauty of a submarine
on the surface: the S-Class type H.M.S. Sceptre slips her moorings
in Scapa Flow, Scotland, and glides quietly into the North Sea
to begin another top secret underwater operation. On the conning
tower the skipper takes a final look across the water to the
distant highlands while crews below savour the fresh salt air
knowing soon they will submerge into their eerie, silent, artificial
world, beneath the waves.
Signed by Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Lumby - Vice-Admiral
Sir Ian McGeoch
Vice-Admiral Sir Ian McIntosh - Commander Edward Young. |
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