USS Rushmore
  LSD-47

 Whidbey Island Class Dock Island Landing Ship


“Nobility Power”

Sasebo Japan nautical chart art print of the USS Rushmore LSD-47 from a painting by William B. MacGregor Jr.

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USS Rushmore LSD-47 is a Whidbey Island class-dock landing ship.  A Dock landing ship’s (LSD) mission is to transport and launch amphibious assaults. The Whidbey Island class ships have a large well deck for transport of USMC vehicles and Marines for supporting amphibious operations utilizing landing craft air cushions LCAC’s , conventional landing craft and amphibious assault vehicles. There is a flight deck for landing helicopters and V-22 Ospreys. She is the second ship to be named for the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota.  The first USS Rushmore LSD-14 was a Casa Grande-class dock landing ship was built by Newport News Shipbuilding and commissioned July 1944 and proudly served until September 1970. The current USS Rushmore is the seventh ship in her class of dock landing ships and was built by Avondale Industries Shipyard in New Orleans and commissioned June 1991. The motto of the USS Rushmore is “ Nobility Power”.

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       Nautical chart art print of USS Rushmore LSD-47 with a Sasebo Harbor, Japan background.
       Free shipping (USA only)

Art Print

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

       Mounted in a beveled double mat.

      The image or 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 Nautical Chart 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.