The trouble with action pictures is that they always look a bit like war comics.  If you can't beat 'em join 'em, with acknowledgements to Warhol.

The anniversary of Jutland in 2016 deserves commemoration.  Here Beatty's battle cruisers have just turned away to lure the High Seas' Fleet towards Jellicoe's battle ships.  HMS Tiger in the foreground was hit several times and suffered casualties.

A sudden gust puts Astra's lee deck under

Favell was the last big sailing ship built in Bristol.  This water colour shows her running the dangerous passage inside the Runnelstone reef on a blustery day.

I do not specialise in French barques aground, but this one, the Vincennes, obviously became quite a tourist attraction when she went aground on Manley beach in Australia.  She was re-floated and repaired.  I love the figures in their formal clothes enjoying  the spectacle, so painted this watercolour of the scene.

A painted ship upon a painted ocean.   This calm evening in the Ionian provided a nice setting with the islands of Ithaca and Cephalonia in the background.

The French built many splendid barques.  This watercolour shows the Babin - Chevay making her way down the Bristol Channel on a cloudy day with the coaster Two Sisters passing ahead and fishing boats on the horizon.