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Greenwich with sailing barge (Print)
Supplying the Navy - a Battleship coaling at sea, 1917 (from series Transport by Sea - The Great War, Britain's Efforts and Ideals) (Print)
A glacier (Painting)
'Saluting the Admiral' [a Greenwich Pensioner saluting a bust of Nelson in the Painted Hall] (Print)
Aircraft carriers in the Malta convoy (Painting)
Bombardment of Pantellaria, Italy, 11 June 1943 (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)
Off Cowes, 1923: the yachts 'Britannia', 'Terpsichore' and 'Ilyrica' (Painting)
The passenger liner 'Queen Mary' arriving at Southampton, 27 March 1936 (Painting)
Captain Sherbrook's Action, 31 December 1942 (Painting)
The Wandsworth Gas Company collier 'Chessington' moving upstream on the Thames, near the Houses of Parliament, c. 1948 (Oil painting)
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)
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)
Convoy to Russia (Painting)
A ship of the 'Queen Elizabeth' class [HMS 'Valiant'] (Painting)
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