'Escort oiler at sea from stern of tanker'

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 service in the merchant navy between December 1940 and August 1945. It is drawn on the back of a fragment of a navigational chart, British Admiralty Chart no.2369 'Baltic Sea: Rosewie to Bruster Ort including the Gulf of Danzig'.

Object Details

ID: ZBA5233
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Cook, John Kingsley
Places: London; Malta
Date made: circa 1941-45; 1943-45 (circa) circa 1943-1945
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Presented by the artist's family, 2012.
Measurements: Overall: 224 mm x 147 mm