Bravo! British Shipyards
A black ship's bow in a yard frames a blue circle of small ships at sea, over the place names El Alamein, Tobruk, Benghazi, Casablanca, Oran and Algiers. Credit for the campaign victories is passed to the shipyard workers by placing their hull beside the battle names, which is the transfer tell.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Admiralty, 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
- Reassure
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front, Labor
- 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)
Admiralty / H.M. Stationery Office, 1942 or later. National Archives and Records Administration (NAID 44266300).
Text on the object
EL ALAMEIN TOBRUK BENGHAZI CASABLANCA ORAN ALGIERS Bravo! British Shipyards Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Wm. Brown & Co., Ltd., London, E.C. 3.—51-3148 ISSUED BY THE ADMIRALTY.
