Description: Vintage Folk Art Painting USS Hickox WW2 Destroyer 673 Paul J Levesque S1/c US Navy (seaman first class). The frame measures 20 1/2" long handle to handle os 13" x 19" the basic frame. The artwork alone is 8" x 14 1/4". I would call it a watercolor with gouache highlights and the ship itself looks like pen & ink drawing. Very well made by a talented person. A wonderful piece of World War II Americana. Hand made frame has handles added to both ends to make it a serving tray as well as a Picture frame, the wood has a chipped piece missing lower left underside. The artwork and matte and fine clean. The glass cover is also fine. See my 12 photos. Artwork can be mailed at much much less cost if frame not needed. USS Hickox was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Lieutenant Commander Ralph Hickox. Hickox was launched 4 July 1943 by Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, N.J.; sponsored by Mrs. Ralph Hickox, wife of the late Commander Hickox; and commissioned 10 September 1943, Comdr.Length: 376′Construction started: March 12, 1943.Named for Lieutenant Commander Ralph Hickox (1903–1942).Ralph Hickox was born 29 August 1903 in Washington D.C. Enlisting in the United States Marine Corps 23 September 1921, he was appointed to Annapolis 18 July 1923 and commissioned ensign 2 June 1927. In the peacetime Navy Hickox served in a variety of ships and stations and was finally appointed commanding officer of the destroyer USS Truxtun (DD-229) on 3 October 1941. He had been commissioned lieutenant commander 1 July of that year. When his ship went aground in heavy seas off St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, 18 February 1942, Lt. Comdr. Hickox remained on the bridge directing rescue operations in a cool and fearless manner which inspired the officers and men under him and was instrumental in effecting the rescue of many of the members of his crew. Tragically Lt. Commander Hickox was swept from the bridge by the pounding seas and lost. 119 members of her crew lost their lives in the heavy seas and with the assistance of the local residents 33 survivors were rescued. Photo courtesy of the US Naval Academy Alumni Association.
Price: 175 USD
Location: Weymouth, Massachusetts
End Time: 2024-12-14T01:39:01.000Z
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