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  • Rear Admiral W.S. Schley.
  • Sailors with men in drag outside a building. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • Eleven sailors performing in a play on the Ark Royal. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • 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.
  • A couple of sailors, one in drag, pose together on stage. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A rating having his hair cut by another seaman below deck. Chromolithograph after G. Morton.
  • Tobacco: an Irishman, a Scot and an English sailor smoke, take snuff and chew respectively. Coloured aquatint by Hunt, c. 1833, after W. Summers after C. J. Grant.
  • An American sailor sits disconsolately in his pyjamas, regretting his infection with a venereal disease incurable with penicillin. Colour lithograph, ca. 1948.
  • The Royal Naval Exhibition at Chelsea: exhibits and visitors. Wood engraving by R. Taylor & Co., ca. 1900 (?).
  • Sailors preparing for a concert party performance. Coloured process print after H. Gervise, 191-.
  • Anchor : New Zealand superfine butter.
  • Anchor : New Zealand superfine butter.
  • A sailor, proposed as a member of a society in which masks are worn at meetings, makes enquiries to its chairman using nautical vocabulary. Lithograph by C.J.W. Winter after G.M. Woodward.
  • A French and a British sailor clasping hands in front of the spirit of Lord Nelson; representing Anglo-French naval cooperation in World War I. Colour process print, 191-.
  • Sailors, some in drag, pose as three couples on the deck of a ship. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • Two sailors, one in drag, sit on stage at a table, in front of very detailed scenery. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Sailors in drag on S.S. Caronia. Photograph, 195-.
  • A French and a British sailor embrace, with their ships inset below; representing alliance between the French and British navies. Coloured photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Laying a cable on the Atlantic seabed: the crew of the Great Eastern launching a buoy in an attempt to retrieve a lost cable. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker, 1866, after R.C. Dudley.
  • Seven sailors standing together on deck. Photographic postcard, 1918.
  • A sailor on the street, play-fighting with a boy. Colour process print after G.A.S., ca. 1915.
  • Sailors at a drunken orgy. Mezzotint by W. Ward, 1807, after J.C. Ibbetson, 1802.
  • A tooth-drawer dressed in military uniform extracting a tooth from a sailor who is being supported by another man. Coloured lithograph by G.L. (?).
  • Greenwich, with London in the distance. Engraving.
  • Three sailors from H.M.S. Natal sitting together: one is in uniform, the other two are wearing pseudo-Oriental costumes. Photographic postcard by T.E. Lonnergan, 191-.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • A doctor trying to administer medicines to a drunken, carbuncled sailor. Coloured etching by W. Elmes after XYZ.
  • The wounding of Lord Nelson on the deck of HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. Engraving, 1813.
  • Naval officers and men on a ship, dressed in the uniform of nine labelled ranks of the Royal Navy. Wood engraving.