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...Lucia, a submarine tender arrived in Devonport (within Sir Hubert's command), 24 hours late, on New Year's day, giving her a very short period in which to coal, ammunition, clean and paint ship before sailing for the Caribbean. No week-end leave was given. Sailors feared that their regular "Christmas leave," already reduced in the submarine flotilla from 15 to 13 days, would be abolished. Sunday morning a detail was piped on deck to finish painting ship...
Among the Turner's are the "Devonport", and "Sunplon Pass", besides a number of his delicate pencil drawings...
Cornish Riviera Limited, Paddington to Devonport...
...British submarine H-29, tilted suddenly and inexplicably at her dock in Devonport Basin last week, sank within a minute and a half. Some men leaped to the wharf, some into the water; none died. Four other British submarines have sunk since...
...latter has been on temporary exhibition twice before. The others on view are: a very early drawing of bridge and cottage in much the mannered style of Turner's masters; an early drawing of a country gentleman's house and ground; "Ehrenbreitstein," probably one of his first continental series; "Devonport," one of the most consummate of the "England and Wales" series; "The Simplon," one of the late Alpine studies; and a rapid study of waves breaking on a beach. The "Tintagel," "Devonport" and "Simplon" form a set of Turner's most consummate work in his best periods, hardly...