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The wounding of Lord Nelson on the deck of HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. Engraving, 1814.
Date: 1814Reference: 548037i
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Horatio Nelson attacking a Spanish ship before bombarding Cadiz, 1797. Engraving by A. Smith, 1809, after R. Westall.
Richard WestallDate: May 1809Reference: 646157i
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Hospital ships, China: sketches showing the interior including the surgery room, with printed text. Wood engraving, 1860.
Date: 21 January 1860Reference: 20722i
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Saint Paul shipwrecked on Malta. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1791, after B. West.
Benjamin WestDate: 1 January 1791Reference: 23963i
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Sailors posing as a couple, one in drag, as they embrace through a window. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 2043886i
Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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Observations on the diseases of seamen / by Gilbert Blane.
Gilbert BlaneDate: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
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Three men help a sailor of their acquaintance who has slipped and broken his wooden leg by calling on a passing carpenter for help. Coloured engraving with etching.
Date: 24 February 1800Reference: 44090i
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Crimean War: the Belleisle Hospital Ship taking provisions on board. Wood engraving.
Reference: 21304i
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Sailors bringing their rowing boat into harbour for the night; representing evening. Engraving by V.M. Picot, 1772, after J.J. Barralet.
John James BarraletDate: May 9th 1782Reference: 2499829i
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Naked sailors having swimming lessons in Portsmouth, supported by ropes held by clothed sailors standing around the pool. Colour process print after J.S. Cribb, 190-.
Cribb, Stephen, 1875-1963.Date: [between 1900 and 1914?]Reference: 2060341i
Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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Armaments: an ironclad battleship, H.M.S. Devastation. Engraving, c.1861.
Reference: 46048i
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Charles Gray and Jack Greer in character as a couple of sailors under the name "Shrimp and Lobster". Photographic postcard by Central Photographic Co., ca. 1930.
Date: [1930?]Reference: 2064386i
Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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The War in Egypt: hoisting invalids on board a hospital ship. Wood engraving.
Reference: 20909i
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A woman wearing a sandwich-board inscribed "I've got VD", showing the absurdity of the assumption that a woman would not pass on a venereal infection to an American sailor. Colour lithograph, 1948.
Date: 1948Reference: 580227i
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The death of Lord Nelson on the quarter deck aboard HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. Engraving by W. Hulland after A. Devis, 1807.
Arthur William DevisDate: 1807Reference: 544911i
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Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Newport, Kentucky: view from the river. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1832, after G. Wall.
Wall, G.Date: 3 January 1832Reference: 18443i
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Earl Howe on the quarter-deck of HMS Queen Charlotte during the sea battle of the First of June, 1794. Stipple engraving by D. Orme after M. Brown, 1795.
Mather BrownDate: 1795Reference: 548349i
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Sailors at a drunken orgy. Mezzotint by W. Ward, 1807, after J.C. Ibbetson, 1802.
Julius Caesar IbbetsonDate: August 1807Reference: 673999i
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An American sailor sitting on a hospital bed, prevented by venereal disease from joining his ship. Colour lithograph, ca. 1948.
Date: [1948?]Reference: 580226i
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A sailor on a quay side with one arm in a sling holds out his other hand as if to push away the small beggar boy who is asking for help. Engraving by W. Chevalier, ca. 1840, after H. Brooke.
Brooke, Henry, 1738-1806.Date: 1840Reference: 31971i
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Some account of the diseases that prevailed in two voyages to the East Indies, in the Carnatic East-Indiaman, during the years 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797 & 1798 ; together with observations and medical remarks in a series of letters to John Hunter / By John Milne, formerly surgeon of the Carnatic, now surgeon on the Bombay Establishment.
Milne, John (Surgeon)Date: 1803
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Juno (?) holding thunderbolts over a stormy sea presides over a monument adorned with eight portraits of English seamen in roundels. Engraving by A. Smith and J. Newton, 1795, after R. Smirke.
Robert SmirkeDate: April 10 1795Reference: 2870658i
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Observations on the diseases of seamen ... / by Gilbert Blane.
Gilbert BlaneDate: 1789
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Two sailors posing on the deck of a boat. Photographic postcard, 191-.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 2060356i
Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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A Greenwich Pensioner, with a pipe in one hand and a stick in the other, being rolled out of a sheet [hammock?] by a sailor. Wood engraving by J. Jackson.
Reference: 32360i

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The wounding of Lord Nelson on the deck of HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. Engraving, 1814.

Horatio Nelson attacking a Spanish ship before bombarding Cadiz, 1797. Engraving by A. Smith, 1809, after R. Westall.

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

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

Sailors posing as a couple, one in drag, as they embrace through a window. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Observations on the diseases of seamen / by Gilbert Blane.

Three men help a sailor of their acquaintance who has slipped and broken his wooden leg by calling on a passing carpenter for help. Coloured engraving with etching.

Crimean War: the Belleisle Hospital Ship taking provisions on board. Wood engraving.

Sailors bringing their rowing boat into harbour for the night; representing evening. Engraving by V.M. Picot, 1772, after J.J. Barralet.

Naked sailors having swimming lessons in Portsmouth, supported by ropes held by clothed sailors standing around the pool. Colour process print after J.S. Cribb, 190-.

Armaments: an ironclad battleship, H.M.S. Devastation. Engraving, c.1861.

Charles Gray and Jack Greer in character as a couple of sailors under the name "Shrimp and Lobster". Photographic postcard by Central Photographic Co., ca. 1930.

The War in Egypt: hoisting invalids on board a hospital ship. Wood engraving.

A woman wearing a sandwich-board inscribed "I've got VD", showing the absurdity of the assumption that a woman would not pass on a venereal infection to an American sailor. Colour lithograph, 1948.

The death of Lord Nelson on the quarter deck aboard HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. Engraving by W. Hulland after A. Devis, 1807.

Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Newport, Kentucky: view from the river. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1832, after G. Wall.

Earl Howe on the quarter-deck of HMS Queen Charlotte during the sea battle of the First of June, 1794. Stipple engraving by D. Orme after M. Brown, 1795.

Sailors at a drunken orgy. Mezzotint by W. Ward, 1807, after J.C. Ibbetson, 1802.

An American sailor sitting on a hospital bed, prevented by venereal disease from joining his ship. Colour lithograph, ca. 1948.

A sailor on a quay side with one arm in a sling holds out his other hand as if to push away the small beggar boy who is asking for help. Engraving by W. Chevalier, ca. 1840, after H. Brooke.

Juno (?) holding thunderbolts over a stormy sea presides over a monument adorned with eight portraits of English seamen in roundels. Engraving by A. Smith and J. Newton, 1795, after R. Smirke.

Observations on the diseases of seamen ... / by Gilbert Blane.

Two sailors posing on the deck of a boat. Photographic postcard, 191-.

A Greenwich Pensioner, with a pipe in one hand and a stick in the other, being rolled out of a sheet [hammock?] by a sailor. Wood engraving by J. Jackson.