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David Weston - 'Sea Alarm at West Bute Basin, Cardiff' - 1980. - David was born in Leicester in 1935 and died in 2011. He gained a reputation as a railway artist in the 1980's. In the 1990's his paintings depicting the romance of steam were exhibited at the London Transport Museum. He painted locomotives and fire engines and airships and bridges and this amazing work above features the well known tug 'Sea Alarm'. She was a 1941 vessel of 263 tons built at Sunderland for the Ministry of War Transport. She became an exhibit at the former Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum, Cardiff but was scrapped in 1998 at the closure of the museum. [439]
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