Join the artist Thees Fock on a journey through a time period of seafaring that ended nearly three decades ago. National merchant marines marked this epoch - making development of containers and computers, which results in a modern global shipping industry. For twenty years from 1959 to 1981, the sailor Thees Fock lived and worked on German conventional freighter ships of the HAPAG-LLOYD AG. Today, traditional sailors and interested people, who are working in different positions of the ship's cargo industry, look back with a little pride and wistfulness to the epoch of these well-shaped cargo-liners, which once dominated the oceans and ports world-wide. At the beginning of the new millennium, for the 59 year old sailor (now retired) and artist it's a challenge and desire to maintain this last era of conventional freighters, with their typical shape and large numbers of masts and derricks, in paintings. We would be very pleased if you were interested in one of nauticART's pieces of special and traditional nautical art. You'll get a piece of Marine History - at a time, when traditional navigation with a compass and a sextant as well as manual stowing of general cargo determined life, thinking and general life of seamen. As an insider, Thees Fock not only shows portraits of many kinds of ships of the past, but also grants insight to a hard and strenuous working world of ship and sailor. His style of creating pictures became solid through the years - watercolour and pen. This style is part of his "handwriting" in painting. You'll find it in nearly every motiv. A strictly limited number of art-prints always guarantee exclusivity, with the artist's signature by hand. Your order by Mouse click is highly appreciated at: http://www.nauticart.net