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title: How Your Salvage Helps to Make a Rescue Launch
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/how-your-salvage-helps-make-rescue-launch-1939/
description: A numbered cutaway of a rescue launch links six kinds of household waste, from scrap metal to rags, to parts of the boat.
section: Collection
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[![How Your Salvage Helps to Make a Rescue Launch, 1939 UK poster: A numbered cutaway of a rescue launch links six kinds](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/how-your-salvage-helps-make-rescue-launch-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/how-your-salvage-helps-make-rescue-launch-1939.jpg)

# How Your Salvage Helps to Make a Rescue Launch

A numbered cutaway of a rescue launch links six kinds of household waste, from scrap metal to rags, to parts of the boat. Putting a rescue craft on top of everyday scrap borrows the boat's life-saving image for the chore, which is the transfer.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
HOW YOUR SALVAGE HELPS TO
MAKE A RESCUE LAUNCH
1 SCRAP METAL
SCRAP IRON NEEDED FOR STEEL HULL. STEEL NEEDED FOR MAKING ENGINE AND MACHINE-GUNS. BRASS MAKES CARTRIDGE CASES. 3-PINT TIN KETTLE MAKES 40 MACHINE-GUN BULLETS. PHOSPHOR BRONZE NEEDED FOR PROPELLOR. COPPER FOR RADIO COMPONENTS
2 ROPE, STRING, TWINE
MAKE NEW SHIP'S ROPE
3 WASTE PAPER
ONE ENVELOPE MAKES 50 WADS FOR MACHINE-GUN CARTRIDGES. TWELVE OLD LETTERS MAKE A CARTRIDGE BOX. WASTE PAPER ALSO MAKES GASKET WASHERS FOR ENGINE AND PROVIDES INSULATION FOR RADIO
4 SCRAP RUBBER
MAKES ELECTRICAL AND RADIO INSULATORS AND COMPONENTS
5 BONES
GIVE GLYCERINE-A COMPONENT IN CORDITE CHARGES FOR MACHINE-GUN CARTRIDGES
6 RAGS
COTTON RAGS MAKE SPECIAL GRADES OF PAPER FOR CHARTS ALSO ENGINE WIPERS
Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Wm. Brown & Co., Ltd., London, E.C. 3.-51-2912.
M.O.S. & R. 76
```

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