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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
U.SS. Augusta
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

U.SS. Augusta

Object numberMO 1955.57
Name Painting
Artist (British)
Date1944
Mediumwatercolor on paper
Dimensionsoverall H 5 7/8 in x W 9 7/8 in (14.9 cm x 25.1 cm )
DescriptionA painting of the heavy cruiser, USS AUGUSTA, entering Placentia Bay, Canada. It depicts a side view of the gray battleship, smoke issuing from the two smokestacks, and flying both the American and presidential flags. The coastline of Placentia Bay is seen in the background. The painting is hand titled in red in the lower left corner: U.SS. AUGUSTA. The artist has initialed and dated the painting, also in red, in the lower right corner: CFM / '44.
Label TextThis painting of the USS AUGUSTA, and one of the HMS PRINCE OF WALES (see MO 1955.58). were purchased from the artist by John Winant while he was U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain in 1944.

President Franklin Roosevelt was aboard the USS AUGUSTA for his historic first meeting with Prime Minister Winston Churchill in August 1941, a meeting which led to the Atlantic Charter.
Additional Details
Custodial History NotePart of the papers of John Gilbert Winant deposited in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library by his widow, Constance Winant, in 1948 and 1949, and donated to the Library by his son, Rivington Winant, acting on behalf of himself and the other descendants of John G. Winant, in April 2000.
Credit LineFrom the John Gilbert Winant Papers, 1916-1947
National Archives Catalog CollectionFranklin D. Roosevelt Library Museum Collection (National Archives Identifier 735948)
National Archives Catalog SeriesUnited States Navy Materials (National Archives Identifier 782673)
Use Restriction StatusUnrestrictedCopyrightReproduction or other use of these holdings or images thereof is unrestricted.
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