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Tangled Float No. 2
Painted around 1945 by Leonard Brooks (1911–)

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The ship’s name on the back of the sailor’s raincoat shows that this is HMCS Cowichan, a Royal Canadian Navy minesweeper. Its role was to perform the dangerous task of clearing mines from the sea off Normandy prior to D-Day.

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