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Gayundah: On the Beach

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Oil on Canvas
200cm x 120cm
(c) Gayle Reichelt 2015

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Gayle Reichelt with Gayundah: On the Beach painting and sketch.




Gayundah was a flat-iron gunboat originally operated by the Queensland Maritime Defence Force and eventually with the Royal Australian Navy (as HMAS Gayundah).   She was originally acquired, along with her sister ship Paluma to deal with the perceived threat from the Russian Pacific fleet.  She entered service in 1884 and was decommissioned and sold in 1921, and served as a sand and gravel barge in Brisbane until the 1950s, when she was scrapped.   She was run around at Woody Point near Redcliffe in 1958 to serve as a breakwater structure, and remains there to this day.

The names of Gayundah and Paluma are aboriginal words for "lightning" and "thunder". 

The title for this painting references that "On the Beach" is a Royal Navy term which means "retired from the service".  

As an interesting aside:  In the early part of 1945, the Gayundah was altered structurally at Cockatoo Dockyard, and was made more seaworthy by the building up of her bows to the level of the upper deck.  Previously the forward part of the vessel had been of a turtle-back formation over which the bow gun was trained.  
Ref:  http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/21594750?searchTerm=A+Nordenfelt+Machine+Gun 

See this link:  http://www.gayundah.info/wp/   for the home of the Queensland gunboats Gayundah and Paluma.

Facebook page:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/Gayundah/

PALUMA was broken up at Melbourne in 1950-51.
See the images below of what Gayundah looked like before the addition.
 Click here for to take you to the HMQS Gayundah website.
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This is what this painting would look like on a lounge room wall.
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