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• 'Puffing Billy' (S31) In Baghdad

  (art) Made by: Maxwell, Donald

  image: a starboard side view of a paddle steamer moving along the Tigris river at Baghdad, with buildings of the city on the riverbank in the background.

• Gallipoli Harbour, Italy

  (art) Made by: Maxwell, Donald

  image: a landscape view of a harbour, walls, town and sea from an inland position; the bottom half of the sheet is largely blank, with a small sketch of a hill or fortification in the right foregound.

• The Long White Road, Taranto

  (art) Made by: Maxwell, Donald

  image: a view of part of the natural harbour near Taranto, with a single sailing boat in the water before a strip of buildings on a floating section of harbour. The coast is just beyond, with a long, white road stretching off across the land into the...

• Taranto

  (art) Made by: Maxwell, Donald 1918-11-04

  image: a view from one side of the harbour at Taranto to the other. In the foreground two rowing boats and two small local sailing boats are moored near a small building. In the background, Royal Navy battleship HMS Queen and a variety of other vessels...

• Italian Cruiser Napoli and HMS Queen, Taranto

  (art) Made by: Maxwell, Donald

  image: a view from the water of Royal Navy battleship HMS Queen and Italian Navy cruiser Napoli moored at Taranto. There are smaller vessels moored either side of the warships, with two trawlers steaming away from them in the immediate foreground....

• HMS Queen : Trawlers and drifters, Taranto

  (art) Made by: Maxwell, Donald

  image: a view of the Royal Navy battleship HMS Queen moored at Taranto in Italy alongside trawlers, drifters and various other small vessels. A line of neatly arranged trees runs across the foreground, the ships and strip of land in the distance bathed...

• Suez : HM Transports 'Ekma' and 'Elephanta'

  (art) Made by: Maxwell, Donald

  image: two British transport ships, Ekma and Elephanta, moored on either side of the Suez Canal. One is moored alongside a warehouse building to the left, with a few smaller vessels moored nearby. The other is visible in the distance to the right, with...

• Wrecks in the Shatt-el-Arab : sunk by the Turks to block the channel. The Shatt-el-Arab is the principal stream of the delta of the Euphrates and Tigris after their junction.

  (art) Made by: Maxwell, Donald

  image: a view across a wide river delta, with a local dhow sailing past two deliberately sunken ships, their masts protruding through the surface of the water. Distant trees and vegetation on the river bank lines the horizon.

• HMS Mavis bombarding an Observation Post at Askelon, Palestine

  (art) Made by: Maxwell, Donald

  image: a view of a coastal position near Askalon being bombarded by the Royal Navy warship HMS Mavis, which can be seen on the water in the distance to the right. A shell explodes on the coast in the centre of the composition. Stone ruins stand in the...

• Beyrout

  (art) Made by: Maxwell, Donald

  image: sketch of four small ships or boats moored in a harbour, with some of the buildings of Beirut visible on the coastline and tall hills rising up behind.