Landing Craft and Caisson

Thomas Hennell (1903-1945)

Price

£650

Signed

Inscribed with title on reverse
Admiralty stamp on reverse

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

8 x 11 inches

Provenance

Michael MacLeod, Hennell biographer, via the Artist's Estate

Exhibited

'Thomas Hennell: A Love of the Land', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, March-April 2026

The artificial Mulberry harbours created for the Normandy Landings in 1944 were to facilitate rapid unloading of cargo. Caissons were purpose built concrete blocks made to form the breakwaters and piers, they were constructed in Britain, towed across the channel and sunk at both Gold and Omaha Beaches.

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