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Hospital ships

Images

  • H.M.S. Dreadnought, a hospital ship, being towed from Greenwich to Chatham by tugs. Wood engraving by J. Greenaway, with letterpress and view of St Paul's Cathedral in title area, 1872.
  • A ward on the top deck of a hospital ship with patients standing or sitting by their beds. Engraving.
  • Boer War: the ward of a hospital ship in which a nurse converses with an anxious lady and her daughter. Gouache painting by F. Dickinson, 1899.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers being lifted off a hospital ship and carried away on stretchers. Halftone, c. 1900, after F. de Haenen after J. Bruton.
  • World War One: two scenes from a hospital ship, a burial service and slightly wounded men on deck. Two halftones, c. 1916, after photographs.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    Medical staff on board a hospital ship. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

    | Date: [1919] | Reference: 586527i
    • Pictures

    Medical officers tending the leg of a wounded reclined patient on board a hospital ship. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

    | Date: [1919] | Reference: 586525i
    • Pictures

    Royal Naval personnel in anti-gas protective gear on the hospital ship H.M.S. Warrior. Glass negative, ca. 1919.

    | Date: [1919] | Reference: 586185i
    • Pictures

    Hospital ships, China: sketches showing the interior including the surgery room, with printed text. Wood engraving, 1860.

    | Date: 21 January 1860 | Reference: 20722i
    • Books

    Going down the river to the ships at Long Reach : being extracts from the reports of Chas. Thomson, Engineer Superintendent of the ambulance steamers 1885-1904. Part one / by John Burne.

    Burne, John. | Date: 1996
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