Lubbers Don't Live!
Navy training-aid sheet in four cartoon panels around a green brush banner reading 'Lubbers Don't Live!'. A sailor leaves a watertight door open, a ship is mined, and a raised hand and floating cap mark his death. The fear-appeal is the drowning, told in rhyme to sailors.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Training Aids
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 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 Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Navy, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Training Aids. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1309N (NAID 514935).
Text on the object
WE PAUSE TO MOURN FOR SEAMAN MOORE HE FAILED TO CLOSE A WATER-TIGHT DOOR LUBBERS DON'T LIVE! A MINE THAT NIGHT SENT THE SHIP BENEATH FOAM NOW HE NEVER WILL GET ALL HIS SOUVENIRS HOME U. S. NAVY, BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL, TRAINING AIDS . . . NAV. PERS. 900,008 A-14 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943-O-561903
