USS Ralph Johnson
DDG-114

Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer

Swift Silent Deadly

Nautical chart art print of the USS Ralph Johnson DDG-114 from an original watercolor painting on a nautical chart by William B. MacGregor Jr. ___________________________________

USS Ralph Johnson DDG-114 is an Arleigh Burke class guided class destroyer and the 64th ship of her class.  The Admiral Burke class ships are guided missile multi mission destroyers capable of performing strategic land strikes with missiles, anti-aircraft warfare role with Aegis radar and anti-submarine warfare.  She was named in honor of Marine Ralph H. Johnson who was awarded the Medal of Honor for shielding two fellow marines from a grenade during the Vietnam war on March 1968. The USS Ralph Johnson was built by Ingalls shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi and commissioned March 2018. She is a Flight 2A Arleigh Burke ship with the addition of two antisubmarine hangers for ASW helicopters and a new longer 5-inch/62-caliper naval gun. The motto of the USS Ralph Johnson is “Swift Silent Deadly”.

 

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Nautical Chart art print of the USS Ralph Johnson (DDG-114).

Art Print

       Art print is printed on Canson Fine Art-Photo Rag Paper or equivalent.

       Mounted in a beveled double 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



William. B. MacGregor Jr. Watercolors the Junkyard 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

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