---
title: '''Feeding 45 Millions: Food Convoy'' (British Ministry of Information poster)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/feeding-45-millions-food-convoy-1941/
description: Merchant ships under a Red Ensign cross heavy seas with a cruiser and two aircraft overhead and a crew watching from the foreground.
section: Collection
---

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[!['Feeding 45 Millions: Food Convoy' (British Ministry of Information poster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/feeding-45-millions-food-convoy-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/feeding-45-millions-food-convoy-1941.jpg)

# 'Feeding 45 Millions: Food Convoy' (British Ministry of Information poster)

Merchant ships under a Red Ensign cross heavy seas with a cruiser and two aircraft overhead and a crew watching from the foreground. The headline 'Feeding 45 Millions' ties the household food supply to the escorted convoy, so the navy's protection is shown as the grocer.

## Text on the object

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

```
Feeding 45 Millions -
FOOD CONVOY
[signature, lower left of picture:] FRANK H. MASON 194[?]
1425309
PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY T.G. PORTER (PRINTERS) LTD. 51-1609
```

Read from the committed image.

[← Engelsche hongerblokkade (English hunger blockade)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/engelsche-hongerblokkade-1941/) [Puna-armeijalainen: Katso! Minne sinua työntää Stalinin verinen käsi? (Red Army soldier: Look! Where Is Stalin's Bloody Hand Pushing You?): Finnish-language leaflet text →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/finnish-leaflet-red-army-stalins-hand-1941/)

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