£200 - £300
J.D. McLEAN (BRITISH, 19TH-CENTURY), HMS “Alexandra” in choppy seas, and HMS Alexandra as flagship, a pair, each Signed ‘J.D. McLean,' gouache, 18x25cm, Built at Chatham and commissioned at Flagship Mediterranean in 1877, Alexandra (named after the new Princess of Wales) was the last ship to mount full broadside armament below deck, and the first to deploy high-pressure cylindrical boilers which drove her 9,490 tons equipped with 21-foot screws to 14.5 knots - the fastest warship in the world at the time. In 1891 she became flagship to the R.N. reserve at Portsmouth, then a mechanical training ship in 1903 and was sold in 1908.
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