#40ties

A fine peep into the cargo hold of a Danish merchantman (it says “No smoking”): there’s activity loading or unloading. No way to tell what the boxes contain; might be mechanical products such as pumps, engines or engine parts??

Women’s Fashion 1940-49 

In Paris France, many fashion houses closed during the wartime from 1941-1945 including Chanel. In the same time, Germany was considering relocating French haute couture to Berlin and Vienna and it was taking half of the fashion production for the own use. In the USA and Britain, clothing was strictly rationed and use of fabrics was restricted. No more than four meters of fabric was permitted to be used for a coat and a little over one meter for a blouse. Most women wore skirts at or near knee-length, with simply-cut blouses or shirts and square-shouldered jackets. The combination of neat blouses and uniform-tailored suits became the distinctive attire of the working woman, college girl, and young societies. 

 Captain C. L. Larsen and the helmsman “Dragoer Peter”. Larsen was a former fisherman, who became a whaler captain; he was Sonja’s skipper from ‘24 .’38. Before that he had captained Norwegian whalers at Antartica and Danish whalers in the Artic waters. A cold water specialist.

2nd picture: the rope to be attached to the harpune is prepared.

Durban Harbour – Maydon Wharf

HERE’S A GOOD LAD. Cheers mate! A pleased petty officer (I believe) of the RCN having a pint in some bar.

Aboard a Portugese fishing dory off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1942.