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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.

• A Cadet

  (art) Made by: Mansbridge, Norman A 1941-12-03

  image: A head and shoulder portrait of a cadet, facing towards the right.

• The Bos'un

  (art) Made by: Mansbridge, Norman A 1941-08-23

  image: A head and shoulder portrait of a bos'un, who is bare-chested and facing left.

• Mr Stant : Third Officer S S Bactria

  (art) Made by: Mansbridge, Norman A 1941-08-21

  image A head and shoulder portrait of Mr Stant in uniform, turning to the to the right.

• 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.

• A Merchant Ship leaving Bombay

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

  image: The upper deck of a ship, with the funnels on the left, and lifeboats hanging on their stands on the right. In the left foreground a figure sits by an open hatch, and another figure can be seen walking along the deck in the centre ground. A long...

• Chief Officer B M Copland, OBE

  (art) Made by: Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell (RA) 1940

  image: a half-length portrait of Chief Officer M B Copeland in uniform, seated with his hands clasped.

• 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.

• SS Rathlin, Rescue Ship

  (art) Made by: Hamilton, John 1972

  image: A reconstruction of the rescue ship SS Rathlin picking up survivors from the water after a British vessel had been sunk. There are seamen in the water clinging to debris and in a lifeboat in the foreground, with some in the process of being taken...