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  • Ship-building: side elevation of a salvage boat, showing the river-bed beneath. Engraving by S. Allen, 1846, after W. Raymond.
  • H.M.S. Dreadnought, a hospital ship, being broken up for salvage at Chatham Naval Dockyard, Kent. Wood engraving, 1875.
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    Ship-building: side elevation of a salvage boat, showing the river-bed beneath. Engraving by S. Allen, 1846, after W. Raymond.

    Raymond, W., active 1846. | Date: 1846 | Reference: 44505i
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    An address to the British public : with suggestions for the recovering property from sunken vessels; also, for the means for rescuing the lives of sailors from stranded vessels; and for the prevention of shipwreck; likewise, on the extinction and prevention of destructive fires; and for rescuing persons from houses enveloped in flames: and for saving from drowning persons who break through the ice. With a description and representation of apparatus used for those purposes, and instructions for their application / By G.W. Manby.

    Manby, George William, 1765-1854. | Date: 1838
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    H.M.S. Dreadnought, a hospital ship, being broken up for salvage at Chatham Naval Dockyard, Kent. Wood engraving, 1875.

    | Date: [1875] | Reference: 30319i
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