• Title
  [HMS Albion aground off Fort Kaba Tepe, 24 May 1915] / watercolour by Gilbert Patrick Hoskins
• Creator
  Gilbert Patrick Hoskins, 1878-1937
• Call number
  SV/152
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  24 May 1915
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  825985
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - framed - 13.4 x 28.6 cm. inside mount
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Gilbert Patrick Hoskins was a private in the 9th Battalion AIF, part of the covering force for the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. He produced a number of watercolours recording Allied naval operations from a viewpoint at an elevated post ashore.
• Scope and Content
  Shows an Allied warship, HMS Albion, which ran aground off Fort Gaba Tepe (or Kaba Tepe) on the night of 22-23 May 1915. Exchanging fire with the Turkish fort, the Albion is being towed off by HMS Canopus on 24 May 1915.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I pictorial material
  
  Two other watercolour drawings by Hoskins (SV*/Wor W I/5-6) show a similar view of the site of the Albion's grounding, and could be interpreted as forming a sequence with this view. SV*/Wor W I/5 is an annotated topographical view with no action depicted; SV*/Wor W I/6 shows HMS Albion under fire whilst aground near Gaba Tepe, with nearby vessels assisting.
  
  Another version of this drawing, alike in all significant respects, was sold at Lawson-Menzies in 2007, suggesting the possibility that Hoskins produced more than one copy of a view in at least this instance.
  
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I pictorial material
  Digital order no:a9213001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed 'Gil. P Hoskins' in brushpoint at lower right
  Landmarks and vessels are annotated by the artist
• Date note
  
  Undated; dated from towing of HMS Albion by HMS Canopus
• Subject
  World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Turkey--Gallipoli Peninsula.
  
• Topic
  coasts
  campaigns & battles
  battleships
  watercolours
  
• Place
  Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3250618

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