1905 Print Medway Chatham Dockyard Kent Navy Torpedo Defense William Wyllie Art YFT4 Head of State

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1905 Print Medway Chatham Dockyard Kent Navy Torpedo Defense William Wyllie Art YFT4 Head of StateThis is an original 1905 color print of a painting by William Lionel Wyllie of the boom set up across Medway to protect Chatham Dockyard from potential torpedo attack in the late 1800s. With tensions building globally, England had considered the dockyard to be reasonably safe until daring Lord Charles Beresford set about proving that it was vulnerable to an underwater attack at night. At the risk of his own life, he reached the dockyard in a torpedo