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
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of Supply salvage campaign (imprint M.O.S. & R. 76), printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Wm. Brown & Co., Ltd.
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
British government poster, printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Wm. Brown & Co., Ltd., London. National Archives and Records Administration, WWII Foreign Posters (NAID 44266654, 44-PF-227).
Text on the object
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
