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• An Earnest Game of Cards

  (art) Made by: Worsley, John 1940

  image: seven sailors sitting around a table on benches playing a game of cards, below deck onboard a ship. Another sailor is visible in the background on the right and there are a few cooking utensils hanging from the wall on the left.

• HMS Philante in Charge of Escort Carriers off Ireland

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1944

  image: Looking out to sea from the upper deck of a ship. There is a motorboat cruising alongside, and three more ships out at sea beyond. Several figures stand on deck of the ship in the foreground, some wearing yellow oilskins, others blue overalls.

• The Battle of the Atlantic : a cargo ship completes another crossing

  (art) Made by: Platt, John Edgar 1943

  image: A dockside scene with a merchant ship having just arrived at the dock. The ship is being tied to the dock by a group of dock workers on the left. There are two tugs in front of the ship's bow with one to the stern and a small boat in the...

• War Transport : a dockside unloading shed - tobacco, ammunition, machinery

  (art) Made by: Platt, John Edgar 1943

  image: The interior of a busy dockside unloading shed. Inside are two lorries with large wooden barrels on the back, a horse drawn cart in the left foreground and a number of dock workers. Two ships are visible to the right.

• A Rescue-ship in the Atlantic, March 1943

  (art) Made by: Plante, George 1943

  image: Looking down from an upper deck of a ship, the funnels on the left of the composition, and crew dressed in oilskins standing on the deck below. There is another ship in flames on the horizon, sending a thick cloud of smoke into the sky.

• Torpedoed and Beached

  (art) Made by: Perkins, Christopher 1944

  image: a beached merchant vessel, viewed upwards towards the bow, through some suspended fishing nets on a beach. There is a figure on the beach gesturing up towards a figure on the deck.

• The Tide Begins to Turn. One of the long range Liberators of 120 Squadron RAF based in Iceland which provided air cover in mid- Atlantic

  (art) Made by: Hamilton, John 1972

  image: An aerial view of a merchant convoy distantly visible through breaks in the heavy cloud, with a Liberator aircraft in flight above.

• The Fight to Save the SS Regent Lion

  (art) Made by: Hamilton, John 1972

  image: A reconstruction of an attempted salvage operation at sea. A sinking merchant ship is attended to by a Royal Navy trawler, which is immediately alongside the larger vessel. There is also a tug in the water to the left.

• U-boats inside the Convoy. U-99 on the Surface, having Torpedoed the Tanker Ferm, 7 March 1941

  (art) Made by: Hamilton, John 1972

  image: A reconstruction of the sinking of a British merchant vessel by a German U-boat. In the foreground U-99 has surfaced to view a merchant convoy in disarray after being attacked. Two men are visible standing on the conning-tower. A large tanker is...

• Night Action. Crew Abandoning Sinking Submarine U-70, 7 March 1941

  (art) Made by: Hamilton, John 1972

  image: A reconstruction of the crew of a German U-boat abandoning their sinking submarine as a result of the depth charges of two Royal Navy corvettes. The corvettes are in the left and right foreground, with the U-boat on the surface of the horizon,...