USS Laboon DDG-58 Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer "Without Fear" Nautical chart art print of the USS Laboon DDG-58 from an original watercolor painting on a nautical chart by William B. MacGregor Jr. ___________________________________ USS Laboon DDG-58 is an Arleigh Burke class guided class destroyer named in honor of Father John Francis Laboon (1921–1988), a captain in the Chaplain Corps of the United States Navy, who was awarded the Silver Star during World War II while serving on the submarine USS Peto. Arleigh Burke class guided class destroyers are built around the Ageis combat system and SPY-1D multifunction array radar. The USS Laboon is the eight ship in her class and built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine and commissioned March 1995. In the fall of 1996 she fired Tomahawk missiles at targets in Iraq and was the first Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to engage in combat. The USS Laboon is a Flight 1 ( DDG-51-71) Arleigh Burke ship and her homeport is Norfolk, Virginia. The motto of the USS Laboon is “Without Fear”.
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Nautical Chart art print of the USS Laboon DDG-58.
Free shipping (USA only)
Art Print
Art print is printed on fine art photo rag paper or equivalent.
Mounted in a beveled double mat.
The image/print size is smaller than the size of the mat.
Matted Art Print is ready for a standard 11”x14” or 16”x20” frame.
Mat will be signed by the artist.
Note:
Mat size is the outside dimension. The double matted print will fit
into a standard frame that can be purchased at your local
craft/department store. No need for custom framing!
The
image/print size is smaller than the size of the mat.
Original Painting – SOLD Change of Command gift
Original Acrylic & Watercolor painting.
Painted on a nautical chart.
SOLD.
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William. B. MacGregor Jr. Watercolors Nautical Chart Artist
William
B. MacGregor, Jr. was born in Medfield, MA, the son and grandson of
Norfolk Hunt Club kennel masters.
Many
of his family members were self taught artists, woodcarvers,
automobile mechanics and veterans of foreign wars including his
father a WW1 US Army veteran. Bill is
a graduate of Medfield High School, Wentworth Institute, and
Northeastern University. His engineering career, from which he is now
retired, included working for military and aerospace companies in
industrial engineering and IR optics. His painting incorporates
“old skool” mechanical and civil drafting tools and he uses a
mixed medium of watercolors, acrylics and inks. Two rabbits are
often in quite a few of his paintings. Look for them.
He is frequently commissioned by United States Naval officers to
create paintings of their ships and aircraft carriers on nautical
charts.
In May,2018, and for one year, four
of Bill’s automotive related paintings were on display at the Larz
Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, MA.