January 1, 1970

Churchill on the deck of ‘HMS Prince of Wales’, after the Atlantic Meeting, August 1941. He had made the outward journey across the Atlantic, travelling at high speed on board this same battleship (Britain’s newest), altering course in order to dodge Germany’s U-boats which were patrolling the seas. (The ‘HMS Prince of Wales’ was sunk only a few months later, off the coast of Malaya.)

copyright: Reproduced from The Broadwater Collection with the permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London, on behalf of The Broadwater Collection. Original held at The Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Image ref: BRDW 01 004