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Description: | Concept: military personnel, shipping, seascape, aircraft, flag / banner / standard, military suffering Description: whole: the two main images occupy the majority, each held within a narrow black border. Five smaller images are placed in the lower half. The title and text are partially integrated and positioned in the upper quarter and lower two-thirds, in green outlined black, in red outlined black, and in black. All set against a light brown background and held within a narrow green border. image: the upper image is a seascape, depicting an Air-Sea Rescue Service vessel flying the RAF Ensign, a motor launch flying the White Ensign, and a RNLI lifeboat at sea. Four RAF patrolling aircraft fly overhead. The lower image is a full-length depiction of two British airmen, wearing life jackets, standing on a navigational buoy at sea. They have raised a yellow flag on the side of the buoy and wave at two approaching rescue boats and an overhead aircraft. The smaller images are of three rescue boats and two navigational buoys. text: DIRECTORATE OF AIR-SEA RESCUE SERVICES 'YOURS TO COMMAND' Should you be compelled to Force-Land in the Sea, do your utmost to see that a warning is sent in good time. THESE 122 ML 149 RNLI F. Gordon. Crosby. 1941 WILL BE SENT TO LOOK FOR YOU AND TO PICK YOU UP. You have often seen the Channel marking buoys. Many of these have now been fitted out with ladders, man-ropes, pyrotechnics, and food. Try and climb aboard, and as soon as you can, hoist the yellow flag. When the Patrolling aircraft sees the flag you will soon be on your way home. ML 140 122 F. G C. FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY AIR DIAGRAM 1360 5/41 PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY J. WEINER LTD., LONDON, W.C.1. 51-9953 Object: boat, lifeboat, aircraft, flag, life jacket, buoy | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Crosby, F Gordon Printer: J Weiner Ltd, 71/5 New Oxford Street, London WC1 Publisher/Sponsor: Directorate of Air-Sea Rescue Services; HMSO | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=2677... | Go to resource |
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