Oil painting showing the powerful British battleship HMS Warspite cutting through icy, choppy waters, entering Ofotfjord during the Battle of Narvik in 1940, under a dramatic cloudy sky with dark smoke billowing from her funnels.

HMS Warspite at the Battle of Narvik

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Medium Oil on canvas board
Dimensions 20″ × 16″ (51 × 41 cm)
Framing White wood with silver outside edge
Year 2024
Exhibition A Painted Ship upon a Painted Ocean

HMS Warspite at the Battle of Narvik captures one of the most dramatic moments of the Norwegian campaign in 1940: a battleship entering the narrow, ice-choked Ofotfjord to engage German forces hidden within the fjord's depths.

HMS Warspite was one of Britain's greatest battleships and would become legendary for her combat record throughout the Second World War. At Narvik, she was the weight of the attack into a confined Norwegian fjord to destroy a German destroyer flotilla.

The painting captures the moment of approach: Warspite entering Ofotfjord with smoke billowing from her funnels, guns ready, the sky dramatic and threatening.

Her guns would silence the German flotilla, and the battle would become a significant British naval victory in an otherwise difficult campaign. Signed GS lower left, and dated 2024 lower right.

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Marine artist Gregory Smith
Gregory Smith
Marine Artist · Southampton

Oil painter specialising in maritime subjects. I've exhibited seven times with the Royal Society of Marine Artists, becoming a membership candidate in 2026. Works held in private collections across ten countries.