FRANK JOSEPH HENRY GARDINER (BRITISH, BORN 1942) H.M.S RESOLUTION AT HARWICH 1670.

Watercolour, signed and dated 09 lower left, housed within a gilt and glazed frame, 78cm by 63cm including the frame, 55.5c,m by 36.5cm image size Note - H.M.S Resolution was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Harwich Dockyard on 6 December 1667. She was one of only three third-rate vessels designed and built by the noted maritime architect Sir Anthony Deane. Resolution served as the flagship in an expedition against the Barbary Corsairs in 1669 and took part in the unsuccessful attack on the Dutch Smyrna convoy, which resulted in the Third Anglo-Dutch War.

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