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• Loading Stores for Italy at Algiers

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

  image: a view looking down on the busy quay side, bustling with people, where cranes are loading military vehicles on to a ship.

• Convoy from Malta

  (art) Made by: Hailstone, Bernard 1944

  image: A view of the port of Augusta, in Sicily, with a convoy sailing through the neck of the harbour. The rural coastal landscape is visible in the foreground, with a few large buildings towards the middle of the composition. The continuing coastline...

• Motor Torpedo Boat 633 and HMS Brocklesby : attack and destroy a motorboat laden with explosives in Cigale Cove, 3rd December 1944

  (art) Made by: Munday, John 1944-12-03

  image: a seascape showing a torpedo boat sailing towards the artist, surrounded by explosions in the water. To the right is a small speed boat with HMS Brocklesby in the background.

• HMS Penelope laying a Smoke Screen during the Attack on Lampedusa

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1943

  image: A view of the side of the ship with three sailors visible at the bottom of the image. The sea, to the side of the ship is partially obscured by a cloud of smoke coming from the ship itself.

• Derna

  (art) Made by: Bawden, Edward

  image: two merchant ships are shown moored parallel to one another in a harbour, set against hills in the background. In the right foreground is a party of soldiers. Two soldiers stand near a large wooden crate, placed in the centre foreground, which is...

• Rescued British Sailors, Soldiers, Airmen and Merchant Seamen : on the French warship Gloire

  (art) Made by: Bawden, Edward 1943

  image: below deck in the cabin of the Vichy French warship Gloire, filled with military personnel. Men are lying on the floor in the foreground apart from one man sitting up in the centre. In the background men are sitting and standing.

• The Battle of Calabria

  (art) Made by: Dixon, John 1942-08-01

  image: A battle scene at sea showing a cruiser [HMS Gloucester?] with large clouds of brown smoke billowing from the bridge. She is circled by five other ships flying the British flag. To the right are three large explosions in the water. The Italian...

• The Smoke Screen: Hunt class destroyers laying a smoke screen round a convoy bound for Italy

  (art) Made by: Stafford-Baker, Julius 1944

  image: an aerial view of a convoy at sea off a coastline, which is visible in the background. There are three large plumes of smoke, the largest of which is in the immediate foreground, where destroyers are laying a smokescreen. One of the destroyers is...

• Admiral Sir John Cunningham, KCB, MVO

  (art) Made by: Worsley, John 1945-12-01

  image: A half-length portrait of a naval officer in uniform. He is sitting in a chair on a balcony. In the background there is a view over a bay with a mountain in the distance.

• British Officers of the Navy, Army, Air Force and Merchant Navy : rescued at sea by the French warship Gloire

  (art) Made by: Bawden, Edward

  image: a view looking through a doorway towards the guarded deck of a ship. Inside, in the foreground, there are men asleep on benches and lying side-by side, covering the floor.