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Images about Navies

31 images from works
  • Masters, seamen and apprentices serving on foreign-going ships or ships engaged in regular trade on foreign stations : Class A.(M.) : national health insurance contribution card.
  • National egg collection for our wounded soldiers and sailors : offices: 154, Fleet Street, London.
  • Masters, seamen and apprentices serving on foreign-going ships or ships engaged in regular trade on foreign stations : Class A.(M.) : national health insurance contribution card.
  • Pensions appeal tribunal (assessment) [form] / Ministry of Pensions.
  • British seamen for British ships : the increase of the foreign element in our mercantile marine & the gradual elimination of the British sailor is becoming a grave national danger / The Marine Society.
  • Boer War: a funeral on board a ship at night with officers and crew standing round the body. Watercolour with gouache by W. T. Maud, 1899.
  • An abstract of certain instructions given the Commissioners for taking care of the sick and wounded men, for the relief of widows, children and impotent parents of such as shall be slain in His Majesties service at sea.
  • British seamen for British ships : the increase of the foreign element in our mercantile marine & the gradual elimination of the British sailor is becoming a grave national danger / The Marine Society.
  • Naval officers and men on a ship, dressed in the uniform of nine labelled ranks of the Royal Navy. Wood engraving.
  • Dreadnought Hospital : out patients' surgery / E.G. Berryman & Sons Ltd.
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Works from the collections

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    Dictionary of military abbreviations : British-Empire-Commonwealth / by B.K.C. Scott.

    Scott, B. K. C. (Brian Keith Colin) | Date: 1982
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Crimean War: a blazing battle in and around the harbour at Sevastopol, details of the French and English ships are given. Wood engraving, 1855.

    | Date: 14 April 1855 | Reference: 24466i
    • Ephemera
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    Seamen's Hospital Society [letter head] : ("Dreadnought"), Greenwich, S.E. 10.

    Seamen's Hospital Society (London, England) | Date: [Between 1900 and 1920?]
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    A board of medical officers of the Navy examining a naval man's injured arm. Halftone after Joseph Nash the younger after a sketch by A. Gascoigne Wildey.

    Wildey, Alexander Gascoigne, 1860-1934. | Date: 1900 | Reference: 24095i
    • Ephemera
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    Dreadnought Hospital : out patients' surgery / E.G. Berryman & Sons Ltd.

    | Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]
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Related topics

United Kingdom
Ships
Sailors
Great Britain
Sea-power
Naval art and science
Royal Navy
France
South African War, 1899-1902
Armies

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