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Seamen on Jetty Being Instructed on Bends and Hitches
Painted in 1943 by Rowley Murphy (1891–1975)

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These young recruits are concentrating on perfecting their sailors’ knots in Esquimalt, British Columbia. This naval base was the centre of Canada’s west coast defences during the war.

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