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title: They're Smashing Them Up ... With MY Ship!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-theyre-smashing-them-up-with-my-ship-taber-1942/
description: A painted scene shows a submarine with a swastika emblem on its conning tower rearing out of the sea under fire, crew falling from the deck.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Wartime Canadian poster showing an enemy submarine with a swastika and sailors falling from a stricken vessel. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![They're Smashing Them Up... With MY Ship!, 1942 Canada poster: A painted scene shows a submarine with a swastika emblem](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-theyre-smashing-them-up-with-my-ship-taber-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-theyre-smashing-them-up-with-my-ship-taber-1942.jpg)

# They're Smashing Them Up ... With MY Ship!

A painted scene shows a submarine with a swastika emblem on its conning tower rearing out of the sea under fire, crew falling from the deck, while an escort ship flying a white ensign stands at right. The speaker's 'MY ship' (the word 'MY' enlarged and in red) lets the shipyard worker claim the sinking as his own result.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
They're Smashing them up ...

WITH MY SHIP!

ISSUED FOR THE SHIPBUILDING BRANCH, DEPARTMENT OF MUNITIONS AND SUPPLY, BY WARTIME INFORMATION BOARD, OTTAWA - PRINTED IN CANADA, ID-3E

[signature in the artwork:] Taber
```

[← They Gave Their Lives! Will You Replace Their Ships?](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-they-gave-their-lives-replace-ships-1942/) [Un mot de trop... un vaisseau de moins. Soyez discrets! \[One word too many... one ship fewer. Be discreet!\] →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-un-mot-de-trop-soyez-discrets-1942/)

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