USS Chafee DDG-90 art print Navy Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer Pearl Harbor

Description: USS Chafee DDG-90 Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer “Commanding the Seas” Nautical chart art print of the USS Chafee DDG-90 from an original watercolor painting on a Pearl Harbor, Hawaii nautical chart by the Rhode Island artist William B. MacGregor Jr. ___________________________________ USS Chafee DDG-90 is an Arleigh Burke class guided class destroyer named for Rhode Island Senator John Lester Hubbard Chafee (1922-1999). He was a WW2 Marine veteran at Guadalcanal and served as the Secretary of the Navy. His son Lincoln Chafee was a US senator and the 74th Governor of Rhode Island from 2011-2015. The USS Chafee was built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. The USS Chafee is a Flight 2A Arleigh Burke ship with the addition of two antisubmarine hangers for ASW helicopters and a new longer 5-inch/62-caliper naval gun. She was commissioned October 2003 at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI home state of the ship’s namesake. The USS Chafee’s homeport is the US Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The motto of the USS Chafee is commanding the seas. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Nautical Chart art print of the USS Chafee (DDG-90) with Pearl Harbor in the background. Free shipping (USA only) Art Print Art print is printed on Canson Fine Art-Photo Rag Paper or equivalent. Mounted in a beveled double mat. Matted Art Print is ready for a standard 11”x14” or 16”x20” frame. Mat will be signed by the artist. Note: Mat size is the outside dimension. The double matted print will fit into a standard frame that can be purchased at your local craft/department store. No need for custom framing! The image/print size is smaller than the size of the mat. Original PaintingSOLD Change of Command Gift. William. B. MacGregor Jr. Watercolors the Junkyard Artistrs (A Rhode Island TraWilliam B. MacGregor, Jr. was born in Medfield, MA, the son and grandson of Norfolk Hunt Club kennel masters. Many of his family members were self taught artists, woodcarvers, automobile mechanics and veterans of foreign wars including his father a WW1 US Army veteran. Bill is a graduate of Medfield High School, Wentworth Institute, and Northeastern University. His engineering career, from which he is now retired, included working for military and aerospace companies in industrial engineering and IR optics. His painting incorporates “old skool” mechanical and civil drafting tools and he uses a mixed medium of watercolors, acrylics and inks. Two rabbits are often in quite a few of his paintings. Look for them. He is frequently commissioned by United States Naval officers to create paintings of their ships and aircraft carriers on nautical charts. In May,2018, and for one year, four of Bill’s automotive related paintings were on display at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, MA .

Price: 35 USD

Location: Tiverton, Rhode Island

End Time: 2024-05-05T17:45:20.000Z

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