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  • The wounding of Lord Robert Manners on the Resolution, at the battle of Dominica. Engraving by J.K. Sherwin and C. Sherwin, 1786, after T. Stothard.
  • A sailor being toasted by a group of his friends in a tavern as he is about to depart for New Zealand. Pencil, ink and wash, by S. Jenner.
  • Seven sailors standing together on deck. Photographic postcard, 1918.
  • A French and a British sailor embrace, with their ships inset below; representing alliance between the French and British navies. Coloured photographic postcard, 191-.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • 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-.
  • Nonsense talked by a cobbler compared to the talk of a parson and a surgeon-apothecary. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams, ca. 1812.
  • Sailors preparing for a concert party performance. Coloured process print after H. Gervise, 191-.
  • The wounding of Lord Nelson on the deck of HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1806, after W.M. Craig.
  • British prisoners of war posing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Sailors posing as a couple, one in drag, as they embrace through a window. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • The medical quarters of the Melbourne, a ship of the Line: a ward deck, above, and an operating theatre, below. Wood engraving, 1860.
  • A sailor with a bandaged eye consulting a mercenary medical practitioner. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807?, after G.M. Woodward.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • Player's Navy Cut cigarettes : "medium" / John Player & Sons.
  • Sailors keeping well by taking "Neverill" remedy. Colour lithograph by R.A., ca. 1900.
  • Two sailors pose on stage, holding up a drink. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A sailor from HMS Dreadnought, clenching his fist. Process print, 1915.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • 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.
  • British inventors, politicians and military men, gathered in a room at Buckingham Palace. Engraving by C.G. Lewis, 1863, after T.J. Barker.
  • A soldier with one arm debates with a sailor with a wooden leg the merits of the army and the navy. Reproduction of an etching by I. & G. Cruikshank, 1806.
  • Two sailors posing on the deck of a boat. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Boer War: a wounded Boer General prisoner being taken off the ship at Cape Town. Process print after F. de Haenen after Fyne.
  • Carlist War, Spain: Spanish sick and wounded being carried on board the "Somorrostro". Wood engraving by I. Nash.
  • Sailors in theatrical costume. Photographic postcard, 1919.
  • Crimean War: the Belleisle Hospital Ship taking provisions on board. Wood engraving.
  • 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.
  • The Royal Hospital, Haslar, Hampshire: from the harbour. Aquatint by J. Wells, 1799, after J. Hall.
  • The wounding of Lord Nelson on the deck of HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. Engraving by G. Clint after S. Drummond, 1807.