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Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham (1883-1963). A half-length, full-face portrait in admiral’s white undress uniform and wearing a cap. The plain grey background is only partially sketched in. The painting exploits the monochrome qualities of a black
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National Maritime Museum

Aircraft carriers in the Malta convoy. Oil painting
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Convoy arriving off St Anthony's Lighthouse, Falmouth. (Updated, May 2014) This scene apparently depicts a coastal convoy arriving at Falmouth, Cornwall, during 1942, the warship escort on the left probably being a Hunt Type 1-class escort destroyer,
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Convoy to Russia. This painting depicts the survivors of a convoy entering Murmansk, Russia, an important port in the north of Russia, on the White Sea and within the Arctic Circle. This was the most hazardous and uncomfortable of the convoy routes. Harsh
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HMS 'Revenge' leaving harbour. One of a group of eleven oil paintings by Eurich, an official war artist, allocated to the National Maritime Museum after the Second World War. HMS 'Revenge', a battleship of the North Atlantic escort f
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Libertymen at Lyness. A war artist's interpretation of the Drifter Pier at Lyness, Hoy, in the Orkney Islands. Lyness became the centre of Boom Defences, where the massive pier portrayed here was erected. Its complexity and cost earned it the name &#
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Merchant Service Fireman. This image portrays a merchant stoker working at the open door of a boiler. A fireman, known as a stoker in the Navy, needed to feed five tons of coal a day into the ship's furnace. The space is confined, dark and hot, empha
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Naval light forces going into action. As an official war artist to the Admiralty during the Second World War, Eurich painted the war effort at home, epic maritime engagements, and stories of survival at sea. Although he did not witness action himself, he
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Playing volleyball. Méchéria [Mecheria] internment camp. During the Second World War, John Kingsley Cook (1911-94) served in the merchant navy as a wireless officer. He joined in 1940, and went on his first sea voyage, to the United States,
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Fête [fete] on 14th July 1942. Put on by Prisoners at Méchéria [Mecheria]. This is one of 262 drawings and 2 paintings presented to the Museum by the artist's family in 2012, and related to John Kingsley Cook's wartime servic
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Captain Sherbrook's Action, 31 December 1942. This painting, signed ‘Chas Pears’ and produced for the War Artists Advisory Committee, shows an action of late 1942 during the Second World War. Captain R. H. V. Sherbrook of the destroyer &l
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