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• Mary Mitchell : engraver, electrical shop, "HMS Dolphin"

  (art) Made by: Dring, William (RA) 1942-09-01

  image: A full length portrait of Mary Mitchell, seated at a machine at work, turned away from the viewer.

• Donning their Battledress : liners and cargo vessels being camouflaged

  (art) Made by: Halliday, Thomas Symington

  image: A view of two ships decorated with dazzle anchored either side of a dock. They are dwarfed by a much larger ship in the background. The sky is filled with smoke. In the foreground tiny figures scurry around on the quayside amongst rail trucks and...

• A Music Hall in Plymouth

  (art) Made by: Topolski, Feliks 1940-11-01

  image: an audience in a music hall, viewed from behind the stalls. In the foreground there are some sailors and girls standing, watching the show with their backs to the artist. A large man and two girls holding Union Jacks are visible on the illuminated...

• Night Exercises in Plymouth Sound

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1942

  image: a view looking out to sea towards an island at night, with the tip of the seafront in the foreground. Searchlight throw beams up into the night sky, highlighting dark ships and a flying boat off the coast.

• War-time traffic on the river Thames: War-supplies at Paul's Wharf

  (art) Made by: Platt, John Edgar 1942

  image: a view across the Thames. Several barges, tugs and gunboats sail up and down the river. The dome of St Paul's is visible between the two warehouses on the far bank.

• Land Work in War-time - Portfolio of four lithographs The Land Army Growing Vegetables for the Navy

  (art) Made by: Hartrick, Archibald Standish (OBE) 1940

  image: Land girls harvesting cabbages. A group of women stand in a field close to the coast. In the background there is a ship out at sea, and the Isle of Wight lies in the distance.

• Corvettes and Minelaying Trawlers being built at Aberdeen

  (art) Made by: Perkins, Christopher

  image: a shipbuilding yard with a view along a row of ships' hulls suspended in construction in a wooden scaffold. Workers carrying wood and cable walk across the foreground of the image.

• The Home Guard in a Tank Landing Craft Exercise, Oban

  (art) Made by: Bone, Stephen

  image: a view of the backs of two British officers standing at the bridge of a landing craft with the coastline visible ahead. A large number of Home Guards are sitting or standing on the deck below.

• The Coxswain of a Tank Landing Craft

  (art) Made by: Bone, Stephen

  image: the coxswain at the helm of a landing craft, facing away from the artist.

• Shipbuilding

  (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA)

  image: A view looking face on to a ship's bow in a dry dock or empty harbour. The artist has made some detailed sketches of railings and anchors in the upper portion of the page.