View taken from the deck of a ship

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 2727 'The Gulf of St Lawrence shhet X: Cape Breton Island'.

Object Details

ID: ZBA5418
Type: Watercolour
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Cook, John Kingsley
Places: London; Malta
Date made: 1943-45 (circa); circa 1943-1945
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Presented by the artist's family, 2012.
Measurements: Overall: 315 mm x 475 mm