Big Guns of a British Battleship
A coloured drawing shows the triple gun barrels of a battleship firing over the deck, captioned 'Big guns of a British battleship. Each gun fires a shell weighing nearly one ton'. The tell for card-stacking is that a single strength figure is offered with no context on range, losses or opposing forces; the item carries no slogan or request.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Issuer not stated on the item; artist Roland Davies (signed); mark 'P.H.'
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision (UK wartime poster; no rights statement)
Issuer not stated on the item; artist Roland Davies (signed); mark 'P.H.'. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-103.
Text on the object
Big guns of a British battleship. Each gun fires a shell weighing nearly one ton [signature:] ROLAND DAVIES [mark:] P.H.
