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• Coastal Defences

  (art) Made by: Ravilious, Eric 1940

  image: a view looking down into a wide bay from the cliff tops. The curve of the land stretches along the left side of the composition, and a searchlight beams up into the sky further along the coast. Several small boats are seen motoring out to sea from...

• Wings Over Scotland

  (art) Made by: Henderson, Keith (OBE) 1940

  image: An aerial view of the Scottish landscape from an aircraft, with one of the plane's wings in the left foreground. Below are a few buildings clustered together, a few fields, a curved and narrow wood and what appears to be a river.

• Hitler's Yacht 'Grille' in Asenfjord, near Trondheim

  (art) Made by: Bone, Stephen 1945

  image: Side view of Hitler's yacht with two tenders alongside, moored in a wooded fjord.

• A Russian (Ex-American) Destroyer, Russia : April 1942

  (art) Made by: Spence, J M 1942-04-01

  image: a destroyer and another warship, both painted in dazzle-style camouflage schemes, are moored near the hilly coastline, which is covered in snow. Three fighter aircraft fly in the sky above.

• The American Base, River Foyle, near Londonderry

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

  image: a gun boat moored at a small jetty with low hills in the distance. A motor launch sails by towards the shore.

• The Cruiser HMS Enterprise at Simonstown, South Africa : Christmas 1945

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1945

  image: HMS Enterprise moored in an enclosed dock. There is an anchor lying on the quay side in the foreground, while mountains rise up in the background.

• Rendezvous in Scotland

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

  image: some Merchant Navy ships at sea with mountains and in the distance.

• Our First Glimpse of the Desert near Suez 'Convoy' series, 1941 - 1942

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1942

  image: Through a network of rigging a sailor looks towards a mountainous coastline. A light anti-aircraft gun facing the sky is immediately to his right and four ships lie in the water before the coastline.

• Balloons and Scavenger Kites off Aden 'Convoy' series, 1941 - 1942

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1942

  image: A coastal landscape; rocky, undulating hills forming the backdrop for a coastal town. In the foreground, small passenger and fishing vessels sail in the sea.

• 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...