Glenaray buying into the mist - Limited Edition Giclée Print. Image size 20" x 20" (51 x 51cm).

Description:
A strictly Limited Edition of 125 numbered and signed high-quality Giclée prints of my original painting.

At 20" x 20" (51 x 51cm), the image is printed on an acid and lignin-free paper (Hahnemuhle Photorag Ultramooth) with a 1" (2.5cm) border. Our friends at Deadly Digital of Glasgow, our superb printers, only use Epson Ultrachrome K3 inks; generally regarded as the colour and black and white reproduction benchmark.

Carefully and securely packaged a sturdy cardboard tube, the artwork is unframed and will be delivered free of charge within the UK. (Note: any image of the framed painting is for illustration only.)

Behind the image:
Puffer Glenaray in the River Clyde mist, by David Dyer.
VIC 89 of 1944, later Puffer Glenaray. With the outbreak of the second world war 107 Victualing Inshore Craft, or VICs, were ordered by the Admiralty; of these four were later cancelled and four others unfinished at the war's end were completed for merchant service.

While the puffer was a Scottish design, the Clyde shipyards were fully occupied with building and repairing Merchant and Royal Navy ships, so the VICs were built at many of the river and canal yards in England, such as Dunston of Thorne, South Yorkshire who built forty, including VIC 89.

The VICs were employed at Royal Navy harbours and anchorages around the coast of Britain, lightering all manner of supplies as needed. Their largely unsung work was nonetheless vital to the smooth running of naval operations. With the war's end, the VICs were sold into merchant service, many being employed on the Clyde into the late 1950s and early 60s.

VIC 89 was sold to Hamilton & McPhail of Glasgow in 1947 when she was renamed Glenaray; remaining under their ownership until being scrapped in 1964.

In 1956 Glenaray laid the Scottish inshore end of the first-ever Trans-Atlantic cable to carry voice transmissions. The ocean cable ship HMTS Monarch, which laid the ocean length of the cable, was too large to work inshore where a puffer was ideally suited to the task. Owned by the British General Post Office and known as TAT-1, it also provided the Trans-Atlantic link for the famous cold-war ‘hotline' between the White House buying and the Kremlin. The cable ran from Clarenville, Newfoundland and terminated at Gallanach Bay in the Sound of Kerrera, just south of Oban and remained in service from 1956 until 1978.