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Lot 31

Charles Edward Dixon, R.I.
(British, 1872-1934)
'Bound North' - the battlecruisers H.M.S. 'Indefatigable' and H.M.S. 'Lion'

16 September 2008, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Charles Edward Dixon, R.I. (British, 1872-1934)

'Bound North' - the battlecruisers H.M.S. 'Indefatigable' and H.M.S. 'Lion'
signed 'Charles Dixon', inscribed and dated July 11th. 1912 (lower right)
pen, ink and watercolour heightened with white
12 x 27cm (4 3/4 x 10 5/8in).

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H.M.S. ‘Indefatigable’ was one of Admiral Fisher’s ‘second generation’ of battlecruisers ordered for the Royal Navy in the run-up to the First World War. Built at Devonport and launched in October 1909, she was completed for sea in February 1911 and cost just over £1½million. Displacing 22,080 tons (fully loaded), she was 590 feet in length overall and was designed to steam at 25 knots. Carrying a main armament of 8-12in. guns, she was initially commissioned into the 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron but spent the early stages of the Great War in the Mediterranean. Recalled to the Grand Fleet in February 1915, she fought at Jutland where she was sunk after a duel with the German battlecruiser ‘Von der Tann’ with the loss of all hands save two men.

H.M.S. ‘Lion’, one of the final trio of Britain’s pre-War battlecruisers, was built at Devonport, launched in August 1910 and completed two years later at a cost of just over £2 million. Indeed, she and her two sisters were the first British capital ships ever to cost in excess of £2 million each and they were the largest and fastest ships of their day. Displacing 29,680 tons (fully loaded) and 700 feet in overall length, her main armament consisted of 8-13½in. guns and she reached 27 knots on her trials. From January 1913, she was Rear-Admiral Beatty’s flagship for the 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron and was first in action at the battle of Heligoland Bight on 28th August 1914. Also in action off the Dogger Bank on 24th January 1915, she sustained several hits on that occasion and had to be laid up for lengthy repairs. Eventually returning to sea, she flew Beatty’s flag at the battle of Jutland (31st May 1916) where she only narrowly escaped destruction but survived the War and was scrapped in 1924.

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