'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.
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- UK Ministry of Information (printed for H.M. Stationery Office by T. G. Porter (Printers) Ltd; artist Frank H. Mason; IWM Art.IWM PST 8104)
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Imperial War Museums (scan via Wikimedia Commons), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright expired; PD-UKGov per Wikimedia Commons)
Frank H. Mason (artist); UK Ministry of Information (sponsor); T. G. Porter (Printers) Ltd; Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Imperial War Museums, Art.IWM PST 8104; scan via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
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.
