USS Stethem DDG-63

                           Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer

                                         Nickname: “the Steel Worker”

                                 Motto: “Steadfast and Courageous”

Nautical chart art print of the USS Stethem DDG-63from an original watercolor painting on a nautical chart by William B. MacGregor Jr.
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 USS Stethem DDG-63 is an Arleigh Burke class guided class destroyer named in honor of steelworker 2nd class Robert Stethem a steelworker who was a Navy Seabee diver killed by Shlite hijackers onboard 847 at the Beirut international airport, Lebanon in the 1985. The nickname of the ship is “the Steel Worker”. Arleigh Burke class destroyers are built around the Ageis combat system and SPY-1D multifunction array radar. The USS Stethem is the 13th ship built in her class and built by Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula Mississippi and commissioned October 1995. The USS Stethem is a Flight 1 Arleigh Burke ship (DDG-51-71) and her homeport is San Diego Naval Base. The motto of the ship is “Steadfast and Courageous”.


     USS Stethem DDG-63 nautical chart art print (Corronado bridge - San Diego Harbor background).

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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 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