Shared Experience: The Merchant Navy: The chain-locker

Art and War

• Introduction
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• Leisure
• Service
• Casualties
• Captivity
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• Artists

In this view inside a chain-locker, two sailors guide the ship’s anchor chain as it comes down from above. Before leaving for the Middle East as an official war artist, Carr took a trip on a Merchant Navy ship. He was passionately concerned that the everyday toil of servicemen and women should be recorded as part of the war artists scheme, believing this was of great public interest.

Paintings

• Corvette Galley
  Leonard Brooks
• Glass-blowers 'Gathering' from the Furnace
  Mervyn Peake
• Parachute Riggers
  Paraskeva Clark
• Sections of buoyancy tank and floating caissons, Sydney graving dock
  Herbert McClintock
• No 1 projectile shop, (Commonwealth Ordnance Factory, Maribyrnong)
  Sybil Craig
• Working in the snow, Australian Forestry Unit, Scotland
  Sheila Hawkins
• Hull Riveting
  Frederick B. Taylor
• ATS at Work
  Rodrigo Moynihan
• The Camouflage Workshop, Leamington Spa, 1940
  Edwin La Dell
• The Merchant Navy: The chain-locker
  Henry Carr
• Private Roy, Canadian Women's Army Corps
  Molly Lamb Bobak
• Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring
  Dame Laura Knight
• The billy boy
  William Dobell
• Transport driver (Aircraftwoman Florence Miles)
  Nora Heysen
• Weighing Down The Tail, New Brunswick
  Moses Reinblatt
• Patients waiting Outside a First Aid Post in a Factory
  Ruskin Spear