H.M.S. Dreadnought, a hospital ship, being broken up for salvage at Chatham Naval Dockyard, Kent. Wood engraving, 1875.

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[1875]
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30319i
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H.M.S. Dreadnought, a hospital ship, being broken up for salvage at Chatham Naval Dockyard, Kent. Wood engraving, 1875. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The hulk of the Dreadnought replaced that of the Grampus in 1831. The hospital ship was entirely separate from the Greenwich hospital, catering for sick merchant mariners of any nation, under the care of the Seamen's Hospital Society. The Dreadnought was superseded in 1870, the Society moved to the infirmary of Greenwich Hospital, and the hulk was later broken up for salvage

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[London] : [Illustrated London news], [1875]

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1 print : wood engraving ; image and border 24.9 x 23.5 cm

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Breaking up of the hospital-ship "Dreadnought" at Chatham dockyard

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Wellcome Collection 30319i

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