"The USS Houston" Size:18" x 24" Acrylic on Canvas; $825.00 CAD 16”x 20” acrylic on canvas

16”x 20” acrylic on canvas

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

the surviving allied ships decided to abandon the East Indies and make their escape before the Japanese cut them off

Tea clippers in company homeward bound on an open sea

It will be the first strike against the Japanese home islands by the US in world war II

"The USS Houston" Size:18" x 24" Acrylic on Canvas; $825.00 CAD 16”x 20” acrylic on canvasThe 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