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  • Two sailors, one in drag, pose on deck holding props. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Two Marines and a young sailor sitting together on board ship. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Chapel of St. Helena, Jerusalem: naval officers and sailors on a tour. Chromolithograph by H. Clerget and J. Gaildrau after François Edmond Pâris, 1862.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • A sailor from Mallorca, with a pipe in his mouth is carrying a basket with fish in it as he stands on a rock looking out to sea. Etching by D. Juan de la Cruz after D. Antonio Carnicero.
  • Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Newport, Kentucky: view from the river. Coloured line engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1832, after G. Wall.
  • Sailors with men in drag outside a building. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Three sailors, two in drag wearing pierrette costumes, pose on deck. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Sailors, one in drag, performing "The Rivals". Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • The death of Lord Nelson on the quarter deck aboard HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. Engraving by J. Rogers after A. Devis, 1807.
  • Drunken sailors round a table cheering and throwing their hats in the air as a man with a wooden leg recounts the Battle of the Nile. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.
  • Sailors on stage in mid-pose, wearing a variety of costumes. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A smiling sailor holds up a condom; another sailor with his trousers down stands towards a wall with one arm raised; advertisement for gay men to use precautions by Gay Men Fighting Aids. Colour lithograph.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • U.S. Naval Asylum, Philadelphia. Lithograph by J.C. Wild.
  • 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.
  • Malta: Royal Naval Hospital or Bighi Hospital, with sailors dancing on the shore. Coloured pen and ink drawing by J. Parker, 1843, after C.F. de Brocktorff, ca. 1819 (?).
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • A sailor surviving in a large empty box of James Morison's pills, after being shipwrecked. Coloured lithograph.
  • Nonsense talked by a cobbler compared to the talk of a parson and a surgeon-apothecary. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams, ca. 1812.
  • Armaments: an ironclad battleship, H.M.S. Devastation. Engraving, c.1861.
  • Marine and City Hospital, Mobile, Alabama. Wood engraving.
  • A sailor running away from the ships dentist who is attempting to pull out one of his teeth. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1898.
  • A liqueur label illustrated with the bust of a French seaman and sprigs of rosemary. Coloured engraving, 19th century.
  • 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.
  • A seaman telling the ship's doctor that hard work is bad for him. Wood engraving by L. Raven-Hill, 1898.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • British prisoners of war, some in drag, posing on stage arm in arm at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Tharan, 191-.
  • Three sailors with arms round each other. Photographic postcard, 1917.