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HMS 'Goldfinch' was one of nine Redbreast-class Royal Naval gunboats, of 805 tons and 165 feet long, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 18 May 1889. After early service on the Australian station, it was converted at Sheerness into a survey vessel and recommissioned under Commander Frederick Charles Learmonth in February 1902. From brief work in the Mediterranean until October, it then went to the West African coast but in 1903 was helping to survey the Newfoundland coast and waters east of the Strait of Belle Isle. Learmonth left 'Goldfinch' in mid-1905 and in 1906, when the boat returned to Sheerness for refit, its poor condition led to it being decommissioned and sold for breaking-up in May 1907. This painting, with what must be an iceberg in the right distance and either another or an icy shore at far left, clearly commemorates the Newfoundland survey.
Title
The Gunboat HMS 'Goldfinch'
Date
1903
Medium
oil on canvas on board
Measurements
H 26 x W 41.3 cm
Accession number
BHC3373
Acquisition method
presented by Miss M. L. Learmonth, 1941
Work type
Painting
Signature/marks description
B D 1903
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