BHC2413

HMS 'Kelly' limping home from the Skagerrack Long Caption: Dring mainly produced portraits for the Admiralty, drawn from life, but he also painted a few naval scenes based on photographs. The destroyer 'Kelly', from which the famous naval officer Lord Louis Mountbatten commanded his flotilla, was torpedoed on 9 May 1940. Heavily damaged, it barely kept afloat and was slowly towed back to Britain under the threat of enemy fire. 'Kelly' was sunk the following year and, in 1942, Noël Coward dramatized Lord Mountbatten’s exploits in the ship in the film 'In Which We Serve'. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Object: BHC2413 Artist: William Dennis Dring Date: 1941 Medium: oil on canvas Size: 380 mm x 535 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.