Date: 1925
Technique: Oil on canvas, 127.5 x 186.3 cm
A painting showing the 'Victory' at her permanent home in No. 2 Dry Dock, Portsmouth. She is pictured in starboard-bow view. She was dry-docked at Portsmouth in 1922 following the launch of a national appeal - the 'Save the Victory Fund' - to restore and preserve her in her Trafalgar condition, shorn of later additions. The ship was refloated for the last time on 8 April 1925 to adjust her cradle and so that her waterline was level with the top of the dock. A submarine visible on the left the battleship 'Queen Elizabeth' can be seen alongside the Sheer Jetty. The painting shows the ship during an early phase of her reconditioning - probably in the later part of 1924 in fact, and using a photographs as a reference - together with a number of the men working on it.
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