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  • Sailing ships and rowing boats at Alexandria, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • View of the Manam river, Bangkok, Siam, with sailing ships anchored
  • Men are fishing for whale in small boats with harpoons; larger sailing ships are in the distance. Aquatint.
  • Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.
  • Civil engineering: the Wearmouth Iron Bridge at Sunderland, with ships sailing beneath, and details (above). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1799.
  • A line of hot-air balloons loaded with boxes advertise "A. Stevens" as they travel over a line of sailing ships. Wood engraving.
  • Scenery to be used in a toy theatre: ships sailing on the sea near a coast, with a wooden building and palm trees on it. Lithograph.
  • Astronomy: a sailing ship at the North Cape, Norway, sailing under the midnight sun. Engraving, 1825.
  • Civil engineering: the iron bridge at Coalbrookdale, with a ship sailing beneath. Engraving.
  • A large iceberg with a ship sailing past it. Coloured engraving by or after E. Weedon.
  • Geography: a gigantic iceberg at sea, dwarfing a sailing ship. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • A storm at sea, with a sailing ship being wrecked on rocks. Etching by Claude Lorrain, ca. 1635-1640.
  • H.M.S. Grampus, a hospital ship, lying off Deptford Creek, Greenwich, sailing boats nearby. Lithograph by W. P. Kay, ca. 1827.
  • Cleopatra setting fire to the sails of a ship . Etching by F. Chauveau., 1648.
  • Casting his contract into the sea, Tom Idle in a rowing boat heads towards a sailing ship past a point of land with four windmills and a prominent gibbet. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth, 1795.
  • A cargo ship sails into a green silhouette of a condom with a message to 'sail the safe course'; a safe sex advertisement by the Directorate General for Shipping and Maritime Affairs of the Netherlands Ministry of Transport and Public Works. Colour lithograph.
  • A balloon sails over the headland and is rescued by a passing ship as it collapses. Coloured wood engraving.
  • The Trinity Hospital, Greenwich, with the sails of a ship in the distance. Coloured engraving by Angus after Tomkins, 1801.
  • Lord North and the Earl of Mansfield stand on a platform addressing a group of distressed patriots beyond which ships of war sail and sink. Engraving, 1776.
  • Above, W.O. Livingstone, L.S. Dawson and W. Henn, leaders of the search for D. Livingstone, seated on rocks, holding guns; below, the Abydos, the ship on which they sailed to Africa, leaving London. Etching, 1872.
  • Above, W.O. Livingstone, L.S. Dawson and W. Henn, leaders of the search for D. Livingstone, seated on rocks, holding guns; below, the Abydos, the ship on which they sailed to Africa, leaving London. Etching, 1872.
  • A winged woman holding a palm branch in her right hand and a spinning wheel with a small man perched on top in her left, walks past a globe, while a ship with billowing sails is passing by in the background; representing fortune. Heliogravure after S. Beham, 1541.
  • A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries [chiefly by W. Wilson]. And illustrated with maps, charts, and views, drawn by Mr. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent artists : with a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea Islands, and an appendix, including details never before published, of the natural and civil state of Otaheite / by a committee appointed for the purpose by the directory of the Missionary Society ; published for the benefit of the Society.
  • A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries [chiefly by W. Wilson]. And illustrated with maps, charts, and views, drawn by Mr. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent artists : with a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea Islands, and an appendix, including details never before published, of the natural and civil state of Otaheite / by a committee appointed for the purpose by the directory of the Missionary Society ; published for the benefit of the Society.
  • H.M.S. Dreadnought, a hospital ship, being towed to the breakers by tugs. Wood engraving by T. Williams, November 1872.
  • H.M.S. Dreadnought, a hospital ship, being towed to the breakers by tugs. Wood engraving by T. Williams, November 1872.
  • Royal Naval Hospital Greenwich, viewed from afar with many ships in the foreground. Wood engraving by H. Vizetelly after W. H. Prior.
  • Royal Naval Hospital Greenwich, viewed from afar with many ships in the foreground. Coloured aquatint by W. H. Timms after himself, 1821.
  • Royal Naval Hospital Greenwich: viewed from down river, with boats in the foreground. Engraving by J. B. Allen after G. Chambers.
  • Royal Naval Hospital Greenwich, viewed from the Isle of Dogs with two ships in the foreground. Lithograph by M. O'Connor after himself.