Battle Fleet ~ Coming About in Line Astern
Coming About in Line Astern
We wished to create a futuristic Naval Battle Fleet forming in Line Astern on a calm Sea, partly shrouded by morning Fog, with the Sun quietly dissipating the Fog.
At first glance, we see only one enormous Battleship, imposing, forbidding, a warning to any potential tyrant not to challenge.
As the morning mist clears we see her sister ship, slightly smaller, approaching on her stern.
Our eye glances across to the Sun, and suddenly we become aware of an entire Fleet shrouded in the Mist.
In the foreground, a large tender is making its way to the Battleship. These are the harbour Pilots that will board, in order to temporarily take command and bring the Fleet into safe anchorage.
Art by Armin Braunsberger of Denmark with Kenneth Thomas Webb © K.Th.W 2022 © KTW 2022
17 October 2022
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Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
