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  • 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.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • Crimean War: wounded sailors convalescing at Haslar Hospital. Wood engraving by H. Linton after E. Morin after J. Mayall.
  • World War I: wounded sailors after treatment in a distributing station. Oil painting by Godfrey Jervis Gordon ("Jan Gordon").
  • World War I: wounded sailors watching a play (at Netley Hospital?). Oil painting by Godfrey Jervis Gordon ("Jan Gordon").
  • World War I: wounded sailors after treatment in a distributing station. Oil painting by Godfrey Jervis Gordon ("Jan Gordon").
  • Whaling: sailors arriving at Greenland to kill whales, their ships being out at sea. Aquatint by R. Dodd, 1789.
  • World War I: wounded sailors watching a play (at Netley Hospital?). Oil painting by Godfrey Jervis Gordon ("Jan Gordon").
  • Two sailors, one in drag, sit on stage at a table, in front of very detailed scenery. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Two sailors, one in drag, sit on stage at a table, in front of very detailed scenery. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • World War I: wounded sailors after treatment lying in hammocks on deck. Oil painting by Godfrey Jervis Gordon ("Jan Gordon").
  • World War I: wounded sailors after treatment lying in hammocks on deck. Oil painting by Godfrey Jervis Gordon ("Jan Gordon").
  • Geology: large icebergs seen in the South Atlantic on Cook's voyages: sailors in boats collecting pieces of ice. Engraving by Roe.
  • French sailors feeding manacled black slaves in San Domingo to ravenous blood-hounds. Engraving by J. Barlow, 1805, after M. Rainsford.
  • Six sailors, one in drag, pose for a group portrait on the deck of H.M.S. St. George. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Six sailors, one in drag, pose for a group portrait on the deck of H.M.S. St. George. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Two sailors with amputated legs, an eyepatch and an amputated arm moving with the aid of crutches. Etching by S.B., 1783.
  • British and East African sailors rescue slaves from a dhow and allot the women slaves as wives. Wood engraving after J. Nash, 1893.
  • Two men wearing turbans standing in a harbour converse with a sailor while sailors and captives are seated on the ground. Etching by M. Schaep, 1649, after C. de Wael.
  • Chapel of St. Helena, Jerusalem: naval officers and sailors on a tour. Chromolithograph by H. Clerget and J. Gaildrau after François Edmond Pâris, 1862.
  • 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: a hospital ship showing lift for transferring wounded sailors from deck to deck. Oil painting by Godfrey Jervis Gordon ("Jan Gordon").
  • World War I: a hospital ship showing lift for transferring wounded sailors from deck to deck. Oil painting by Godfrey Jervis Gordon ("Jan Gordon").
  • French sailors throwing manacled black soldiers off a ship into the a sea populated by large carnivorous animals. Engraving by J. Barlow after M. Rainsford.
  • Two wives of Arab sailors, one with a child, about to join their husbands on board Portuguese ships. Etching by Johannes á Doetechum after Linschoten.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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-.
  • 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-.