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DescriptionKnitting Torpedoes' by Dudley Buxton. This cartoon depicts a barefoot sailor sitting on an upturned washing tub, smoking a pipe and knitting a long, tube-like structure. The caption at the bottom of the cartoon reads: 'KNITTING TORPEDOES FOR NEEDY BATTLESHIPS.' The joke here is derived from the campaign in Britain during World War I to encourage women to knit socks, vests and washcloths for the soldiers serving in Europe. Most Britons would have been familiar with Red Cross posters and even songs urging women to 'knit their bit', so the ludicrousness of somebody knitting torpedoes would have seemed especially amusing to them.
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Description'Sea-Pie' magazine was founded to raise funds for authorised naval charities. The first issue appeared on 23 June 1917, priced one shilling. The magazine typically contained short stories, poems, cartoons, and paintings and drawings, often on a nautical theme.
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DescriptionEditions of 'Blighty' (1917, 1918) and 'Sea Pie' (1917-1919), First World War magazines with pictures, stories, poems and humour. 'Blighty' was sent free to the men at the front and in the fleet. Profits from sales of 'Sea Pie' went to help sailors and their families.