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title: The Life-Line is Firm Thanks to the Merchant Navy
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-life-line-is-firm-merchant-navy-1939/
description: A painted portrait shows a seaman in a woollen cap and an officer in a peaked cap, both holding binoculars and looking out over a rough sea.
section: Collection
---

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[![The Life-Line is Firm Thanks to the Merchant Navy, 1939 UK poster: A painted portrait shows a seaman in a woollen cap](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-life-line-is-firm-merchant-navy-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-life-line-is-firm-merchant-navy-1939.jpg)

# The Life-Line is Firm Thanks to the Merchant Navy

A painted portrait shows a seaman in a woollen cap and an officer in a peaked cap, both holding binoculars and looking out over a rough sea. The text 'The life-line is firm thanks to the Merchant Navy' uses a reassuring virtue phrase in place of any supply figures.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
The life-line is firm
thanks to the
MERCHANT NAVY

CHARLES WOOD
PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY ST MICHAEL'S PRESS LTD. LONDON. 51/1131.
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
```

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