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Below deck, a line of seamen queue to collect the daily rum ration for their mess. Each man is holding a jug or bucket. The rum is being issued from a large barrel with 'THE KING - GOD BLESS HIM' on it. Royal Marines issue the rum with measuring jugs while a Royal Navy Petty Officer and Sub-Lieutenant observe.}}

Below deck, a line of seamen queue to collect the daily rum ration for their mess. Each man is holding a jug or bucket. The rum is being issued from a large barrel with 'THE KING - GOD BLESS HIM' on it. Royal Marines issue the rum with measuring jugs while a Royal Navy Petty Officer and Sub-Lieutenant observe.}}

|author = Beadell, S J (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer

|author = Beadell, S J (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer
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|date = (Second World War)
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|date = 1940

|source = http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//28/media-28888/large.jpg

|source = http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//28/media-28888/large.jpg

|catalogue_number =A 1777

|catalogue_number =A 1777

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