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Sketch of two Elco motor launches and an exploding mine
These are American-built Elco motor launches, ordered by the Admiralty in 1915. The Royal Navy ultimately received 510 of them between 1915 and 1916 and this drawing probably shows the explosion of a floating mine set off by gunfire from the bow of the leading one of the pair depicted here in stern view. These launches were equipped for general patrol, anti-submarine work and inshore minesweeping
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Object details
| ID: | PAE3595 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | Drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wyllie, William Lionel |
| Date made: | circa 1916-18 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection |
| Measurements: | 255 mm x 179 mm |