"The USS Houston" Size:18" x 24" Acrylic on Canvas; $825.00 CAD The painting shows USS Newport

The painting shows USS Newport News as she steams through heavy Atlantic seas under a breaking morning sky

Fading sunlight over farmlands

This work depicts naval engagement involving three US Navy destroyers

Tea clippers in company homeward bound on an open sea

This shows the takeoff of the first B-25 bomber

"The USS Houston" Size:18" x 24" Acrylic on Canvas; $825.00 CAD The painting shows USS NewportThe Houston was a US cruiser stationed in the far east at the outbreak of World War II. The Houston and a smattering of other allied ships were all that could be mustered against the powerful Japanese naval forces sweeping through southeast Asia and into the Dutch East Indies. Facing a number of defeats, the surviving allied ships decided to abandon the East Indies and make their escape before the Japanese cut them off. The USS Houston together with