'From the bridge of an Escort Oiler'

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.2865 'Baltic - Germany - Mecklenburger Bucht and Lubecker Bucht'.

Object Details

ID: ZBA5428
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Cook, John Kingsley
Places: London; Malta
Date made: 1943-44 (circa); circa 1943-1944 1943-45 (circa)
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Presented by the artist's family, 2012.
Measurements: Overall: 487 mm x 320 mm