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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.

• 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.

• 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...

• The Toll

  (art) Made by: Hamilton, John 1972

  image: A view of survivors of a sinking Merchant ship, who sit on large pieces of debris and two lifeboats, one of which has overturned. There are drowned bodies in the water amongst the survivors.

• A Lone Survivor, Covered in Oil

  (art) Made by: Hamilton, John 1972

  image: Looking down on an inflatable life raft with a single survivor covered in oil sitting within it.

• Crew of a 6-inch Gun on Board an Armed Merchant Cruiser (HMS Ranpura)

  (art) Made by: Worsley, John 1942

  image: a row of seven sailors sit on the deck of the ship wearing hats and overcoats. they sit leaning against the wall with their feet resting on shell cases.

• Rum Issue

  (art) Made by: Worsley, John

  image: a crowd of sailors line up to receive their serving of rum from a large barrel in the foreground.

• Smoke on the Horizon, 1940. Bridge Activity at a Sighting; Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Laurentic, Northern Patrol 1940

  (art) Made by: Worsley, John 1940

  image: seven sailors wearing oilskins gather with binoculars and telescopes on the deck of a ship. They are looking towards a plume of smoke rising on the horizon.

• On the Mess Deck : Two sailors off Watch

  (art) Made by: Worsley, John 1940

  image: two sailors sit in their hammocks chatting. They are suspended above another man who sits below them at a table, reading. Beneath this there is a second sketch on the page, depicting two hammocks above a group of three men sitting around a table.