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Texas A&M Maritime Academy TS General Rudder Galveston, Texas Training ship TS General Rudder is from an original watercolor painting on a nautical chart by William B. MacGregor Jr., who is known in the New England area as the Junkyard Artist. The Texas A&M Maritime Academy (TMA) is one of seven maritime academies that train U.S. Merchant Marine officers & the only one located on the Gulf of Mexico. Texas A&M Maritime Academy was founded on January 26,1962 & General Earl Rudder was the college's first president. The Academy trains cadets to maintain & operate unlimited-tonnage ocean-going vessels. Students sail aboard the TMA training ship & commercial ships during to gain practical experience in navigation, seamanship & engineering operations. in March of 1996, the academy acquired the luxury liner USS Queens, & in June after a refit became the academy's first training ship named USTS Texas Clipper. in 1992, the ex-Contender a Stalwart-class ship became the T/V Kings Pointer, the training vessel for the United States Merchant Marine Academy in New York. (Stalwart-class ships were originally designed to collect underwater acoustical data in support of Cold War antisubmarine warfare operations in the 1980s.) January 2012. She was then transferred to Texas A&M University at Galveston & renamed the "TS General Rudder" (after General James Earl Rudder), where she remains today as the primary training vessel for cadets of the Texas A&M Maritime Academy. in 2013, the vessel had another major overhaul, with the aft fantail's bulwark lowered, aft main deck leveled, & hull cleaned & repainted. Texas A&M Maritime Academy's (TMA) training ship TS General Rudder in Galveston, Texas. Free shipping (USA only) (...Original Painting is Available, Please see below or inquire...) Art Print Art print is printed on Canson Fine Art Photo Rag Paper or equivalent. Mounted in a beveled double mat. Matted Art Print is ready for a standard 8"x10", 11"x14" or 16"x20" frame. Mat will be signed by the artist. Note: Mat size is the outside dimension. The double matted print will fit into a standard frame that can be purchased at your local craft/department store. No need for custom framing! The image/print size is smaller than the size of the mat. Magnet Magnet is approximately 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" in size. Acrylic Plastic Refrigerator Magnet. Original Nautical Chart Painting Original Acrylic & Watercolor painting on nautical chart 11324. Mounted in a 22" x 28" flag blue mat. Image opening size is approx. 14 ½" x 21" Sorry, I do not offer framing. But it will fit into a standard 22"x28" frame. $329 including shipping. William. B. MacGregor Jr. Watercolors the Junkyard Artist William B. MacGregor, Jr. was born in Medfield, MA, the son & grandson of Norfolk Hunt Club kennel masters. Many of his family members were self taught artists, woodcarvers, automobile mechanics & veterans of foreign wars including his father a WW1 US Army veteran. Bill is a graduate of Medfield High School,
