Royal Australian Navy Submarine

Dimensions:

32 cm x 24 cm

Setting:

Peace time operations

A night Float on/Float off training activity from a Royal Australian Navy Collins Class Submarine, involves SASR soldiers using Zodiac inflatable boats. This print was authenticated and produced by SASR.

About Barry Spicer
Barry has enjoyed drawing from an early age and especially drawing aircraft, ships and military vehicles. A strong influence in his young life was an uncle whose hobby was making plastic models of aircraft and tanks. Barry always admired them when he visited and often drew pictures of the completed kits. That planted the seed for an interest in military hardware which much later in life became the focus of many of his paintings.

He began painting in 1994 at the age of 33. learning from books and experimentation, at first with an airbrush before moving on to acrylics, then finally settling on oils as his preferred medium.

His first commissioned painting came in 1996. Since then, Barry has completed many commissions for a number of RAAF and Army units as well as paintings and drawings for galleries, private collectors and companies, for use on stamps, coins, books, model box lids or as limited-edition prints.

Barry lives in Surrey Downs, South Australia and he is the patron artist for the National Military Vehicle Museum of SA.

More paintings by Barry Spicer
About Collins Class SubmarinesSailors at work
Since entering World War 1 in 1914 with 16 ships, two submarines and 3800 RAN personnel (including 850 from the Royal Navy) the number of serving personnel in the Royal Australian Navy has fluctuated depending on the strategic and shifting financial environment. Over more than a century, the RAN’s and people have seen action in every ocean of the world.

Of the tens of thousands who have served, 2658 members have made the ultimate sacrifice defending Australia’s interests in warlike and peacetime operations across the globe.

Fortunately, for the vast majority who served in periods of peace or survived periods of hostilities the experience was positive.

In addition to their service in a particular category which involved specific duties, they also participated in communal duties such as coaling ship. Thus, the artworks included in this section relate to a mix of specialist and communal activities.