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Inspecting bomb damage on ship
Escort carrier for Merchant Navy ships
Allan Wyllie, Merchant Navy seafarer
Stewards at sea
The Aquitania in Wellington Harbour
Rescuing survivors from torpedoed merchant ship
Loose lips might sink ships poster
Rescue of crew from the Awatea, 1942
Seamen on the Kaiwarra, 1940
Merchant Navy identification badge
Merchant ships en route to Britain
Merchant Navy propaganda poster
Sound: life at sea in the Merchant Navy
Sound: merchant seafarer describes shipping out
Sound: seafarer recalls German air attack on his convoy
Sound: a Merchant Navy seafarer looks back
Sound: the sinking of the Limerick, 1943