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You are here: Home / Artworks / Ships and aircraft in company / HMAT Barambah 1919

HMAT Barambah 1919

by John Charles Allcot

Dimensions:
24 cm x 32.5 cm
Medium:
watercolour and gouache on paper
Place made:
Melbourne
Date:
1928
Setting:
WW I (1914-1918)
Photo courtesy of the Davidson Auctions – The John Hannan Collection of Marine Art

The Barambah was one of several vessels seized as war prizes at the start of WW1. These German owned ships happened to be either in or in the vicinity of Australian ports at the time war was declared. Ironically its German name was Hobart. Its owners previously were the Deutsche-Australische Line, Hamburg.

For more information about this ship visit:
His Majesty’s Australian Transports [HMAT] Ships, Transporting the AIF (tripod.com)

  • About John Charles Allcot

    John was born on 14 November 1888 in England, and at the age of 14 John was apprenticed to lithographers, and attended classes at the Liverpool Institute and School of Art. In 1906 he worked in the Mersey tugboats and next year sailed as a deck-boy in the barque, Invermark. He loved painting and would scrounge ship's paint, sailcloth and handkerchiefs with which to depict the sea, ships and life on board.

    Arriving in Sydney in the Miltiades in 1909, Allcot signed on with the old clipper, Antiope. He worked in coastal, island and intercolonial vessels out of Sydney before giving up the sea in 1912. He then supported himself by painting theatre sets and obtained commissions for ship paintings from Sydney photographers. In the 1940s he painted the seas for ship-models built by the sculptor Robert Klippel.

    Allcot’s studio became a meeting-place for those interested in ships, paintings and models. Regular visitors included maritime artists Oswald Brett and Ian Hansen. Allcot used water-colour, gouache and oils to paint his ships.

    Allcot showed impeccable attention to detail in his ship paintings and in 1954 his painting of the Cutty Sark was presented to the Duke of Edinburgh.

    His work is represented in private and public collections in Australia and abroad.

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  • About Ships and aircraft in company

    In this section a wide variety of artworks with more than one ship, submarine or aircraft are featured. When two or more naval vessels are operating together they are said to be ‘in company’.

    The diverse nature of activities, exercises and deployments undertaken by ships, submarines and aircraft of the Royal Australian Navy means that a ship may spend long periods conducting single ship operations or periodically join with large numbers of other ships for such events as a naval review or fleet entry to a port. These latter events are generally scheduled to commemorate a particular event.  During such events a prominent or royal figure will review the fleet as part of the ceremony. Throughout its history ships of the RAN have participated in major fleet entries and reviews both in Australian waters and overseas.

     

    Details of Ships in the First Fleet

    Name Class Commission Dates
    HMAS Australia Indefatigable Class 21 Jun 1913 – 12 Dec 1921
    HMAS Melbourne Town Class Light Cruiser 18 Jan 1913 – 23 Apr 1928
    HMAS Sydney Town Class Light Cruiser 26 Jun 1913 – 8 May 1928
    HMAS Encounter Challenger Class Light Cruiser 1 Jul 1912 – 1 Jan 1923
    HMAS Warrego River Class 1 Jun 1912 – 22 Jul 1919
    HMAS Parramatta River Class 10 Sep 1910 – 22 Jul 1919
    HMAS Yarra River Class 10 Sep 1910 –  30 Sep 1929

More reading

  • Additional resources for John Charles Allcot
    • John Allcot, Australian National Maritime Museum (sea.museum)
    • John Charles Allcot - Australian Dictionary of Biography (anu.edu.au)
  • Additional resources for Ships and aircraft in company
    • Australian Fleet Reviews 1788 to 1914
    • Occasional Paper 162: Port Phillip’s Fleet Review 1920
    • The Royal Australian Navy fleet entry of 1913 (awm.gov.au)
    • Occasional Paper 17: Fleet arrival in Sydney – 4 October 1913
    • 1913 RAN Fleet Entry (Youtube)
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