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The Wandsworth Gas Company collier 'Chessington' moving upstream on the Thames, near the Houses of Parliament, c. 1948 (Oil painting)
Three types of iceberg (Painting)
Gibraltar (Poster)
U-boat action against a merchant topsail schooner during the war of 1914-18 - lifeboat rowing away (Drawing)
Maintaining food supplies: The arrival of the Grain Ship. She has been mined: and is much awash for'ard, but reaches port. (From series Transport by Sea - The Great War, Britains Efforts and Ideals) (Print)
The Place of Safety (from Transport by Sea - The Great War, Britains Efforts and Ideals) (Print)
Transporting Troops: A convoy of Transports with attendant Destroyers (from series Transport by Sea - The Great War, Britain's Efforts and Ideals) (Print)
The marvel of Mulberry: Normandy landing, June 1944 (Painting)
Surrender of U-111 to the trawler 'Lady Shirley' (Painting)
Aboard a minesweeping trawler (Painting)
A ship of the 'Queen Elizabeth' class [HMS 'Valiant'] (Painting)
Convoy to Russia (Painting)
The 'Tirpitz' Attacked by Barracudas, 3 April 1944 (Painting)
Sinking of the Scharnhorst, 26 December 1943 (Painting)
A glacier (Painting)
Aircraft carriers in the Malta convoy (Painting)
The 'Jervis Bay' action, 5 November 1940 (Painting)
U-boat action against a merchant topsail schooner during the war of 1914-1918 (Drawing)
A P&O liner (Painting)
Captain Sherbrook's Action, 31 December 1942 (Painting)
Off Cowes, 1923: the yachts 'Britannia', 'Terpsichore' and 'Ilyrica' (Painting)
Bombardment of Pantellaria, Italy, 11 June 1943 (Painting)
'Saluting the Admiral' [a Greenwich Pensioner saluting a bust of Nelson in the Painted Hall] (Print)
Supplying the Navy - a Battleship coaling at sea, 1917 (from series Transport by Sea - The Great War, Britain's Efforts and Ideals) (Print)
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