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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.

• Italians Surrendering at Famagusta, Cyprus : 13th September 1943

  (art) Made by: Georghiou, Georgios Polybius 1943

  image: Vessels of the Italian Navy surrendering within Famagusta harbour. In the right foreground a line of traditional sailing ships are moored in the water. In the background is the city of Famagusta, with merchant ships moored on the quayside. Several...

• Attack on Taranto, 11 November 1940

  (art) Made by: Hamilton, John 1972

  image: A reconstruction of the British raid on Taranto with shipping, flares and searchlights in a night sky. The Italian fleet at anchor in the harbour is under attack from aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm. Searchlight beams shine brightly up into the...

• 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.

• With the Invasion Fleet: Troops Manning their Assault Landing Craft before the Landings in Sicily, Dawn, July 10th 1943

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1943

  image: The deck of a ship at night. A line of fully kitted out troops prepare to board a landing craft, each soldier with his right hand on the shoulder of the man in front to help guide each other in the dark.

• Bechuanaland Boys cleaning AA Guns in the Twilight after Action, Syracuse, Sicily

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1944

  image: soldiers from Bechuanaland stand on the edge of a gun emplacement, cleaning the barrel of a gun. Behind them are several anti-aircraft guns with rows of tents nearby and mountains in the distance.

• Admiral C H J Harcourt's Flagship HMS Newfoundland in the Attack on Pantellaria

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1943

  image: View from a ship firing its guns onshore with crew (dressed in anti-flash gear) watching the action lower left. Smoke rises from target on land.

• 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.

• Benghazi: Sunken Shipping in the Harbour

  (art) Made by: Bawden, Edward

  image: a scene in Benghazi harbour with two partly submerged ships in the water in the foreground. Another ship with only its funnels and bridge visible above the water line is in the left background. Fully afloat merchant ships are in the left and right...