'Unloading ballast'

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. This was drawn on the back of a piece of navigational chart showing soundings (deep), part of a compass rose, lines for magnetic variation, and graticule.

Object Details

ID: ZBA5299
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Cook, John Kingsley
Places: London; Malta
Date made: 1941
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Presented by the artist's family, 2012.
Measurements: Overall: 179 mm x 123 mm