![]() ![]() “Being a person who likes to draw and paint, they always appealed to me.”īased out of Montreal’s Naval Reserve Division, HMCS Donnacona, S1 Hiscock was posted to Goose Bay in September 2020 while he went through training for his Marine Technician (Mar Tech) trade A-ticket Roundsman qualification. “I have always liked the way the crew of military vehicles would paint a picture on them for luck, or to show how proud they were as a team,” said S1 Hiscock. Similar to the “nose art” painted on the fuselage of aircraft during the First and Second World Wars, ships’ crews began painting cartoon-style designs on their ship’s gunshield, often coming up with artwork that played on the ship’s name. A Royal Canadian Navy sailor has created a lasting artistic legacy on board Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Goose Bay.ĭrawing inspiration from the ship’s name and old war movies he saw as young boy with his father, Sailor 1st Class (S1) Ron Hiscock has created a striking piece of gunshield art, an art form that became popular during the Second World War most notably on the Canadian Flower-class corvettes. ![]()
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