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A ship caught in a storm; three people in a lifeboat in the foreground. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1820.

A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.

Saint Paul: he is shipwrecked on Malta. Engraving, 1794, by B.T. Pouncy after P.J. Loutherbourg.

A child being rescued from a shipwreck, two women are in the sea about to be rescued by a boat. Stipple engraving by A. Roffe after F.R. Roffe after W. Wyon.

A storm at sea, with a sailing ship being wrecked on rocks. Etching by Claude Lorrain, ca. 1635-1640.

Saint Paul: his shipwreck on Malta. Engraving by M. Vandergucht after G. Freman.

Two women rescuing a man from the sea off the coast of Swansea. Wood engraving by W.H., 1883, after T.R.

Ship-wreck near Caiphas, with Mount Carmel in the distance. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.

Saint Paul, shipwrecked on Malta, is attacked by a snake which he shakes off into a fire; it does not harm him and the onlookers take him for a god. Etching after J. Thornhill.

Saint Paul shipwrecked on Malta. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1791, after B. West.

An appeal to the British nation, on the humanity and policy of forming a national institution, for the preservation of lives and property from shipwreck / by Sir William Hillary.

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Saint Paul shipwrecked on Malta. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1791, after B. West.

Two women rescuing a man from the sea off the coast of Swansea. Wood engraving by W.H., 1883, after T.R.

An appeal to the British nation, on the humanity and policy of forming a national institution, for the preservation of lives and property from shipwreck / by Sir William Hillary.

Ship-wreck near Caiphas, with Mount Carmel in the distance. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.

A storm at sea, with a sailing ship being wrecked on rocks. Etching by Claude Lorrain, ca. 1635-1640.