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  • A sailor on the dock, smoking. Colour process print after G.A.S., ca. 1915.
  • Soapine : home soap / Kendall Manufacturing Company.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • The death of Lord Nelson aboard HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. Coloured engraving by J. Heath, 1811, after B. West.
  • Village School, Montacute, Somerset. Wood engraving, 1848.
  • 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.
  • A woman wearing a sandwich-board inscribed "I've got VD", showing the absurdity of the assumption that a woman would not pass on a venereal infection to an American sailor. Colour lithograph, 1948.
  • An old sailor with wooden leg and a man with no arms drinking in a tavern; below is a song about their seafaring days. Etching by I. Cruikshank, c. 1791.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • 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 boy sailor climbing up riggings. Engraving by W.H. Lizars after W. Nicholson.
  • Boxer Movement, China: showing how Midshipman Guy obtained his Victoria Cross. Watercolour by G. Soper, 1900.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Hong Kong: bird's eye view of the hospital and harbour. Wood engraving by H. Crane.
  • A young soldier puts a coin into the hat of a wounded sailor as he knocks to gain entry to a brothel. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1781.
  • Royal Victoria Military Hospital, Netley, Hampshire: visit on Majuba Day by Queen Victoria. Process print after R.M. Paxton.
  • World War I: wounded sailors listening to musicians playing on board ship. Oil painting by Oswald Moser, ca. 1918.
  • A man wearing a sailor's costume blows a condom up into a balloon with his trousers down next to another man wearing a leather waist coat and hat; a condom dispensing machine sits on the wall to the left; with the message: "Act now!"; an advertisement for World AIDS Day, 1 December 1993 by ARIS (Association of gays and lesbians in Lyon). Lithograph by Félix [?].
  • Sailors in theatrical costume. Photographic postcard, 1919.
  • The most popular agent / Drs. Starkey & Palen.
  • The death of Lord Nelson on the quarter deck aboard HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar. Engraving by W. Bromley after A.W. Devis, 1807.