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1. Sailors' chapel, Dock Street.
	The interior of St Paul's Seamen's Church in Dock Street, as drawn by Francis Arandale. This was built by the directors of the nearby Sailors' Home...

2. Royal Naval College, Greenwich from the river.
	A view from the Isle of Dogs, 1889, slightly off the central axis to the west, with neither the Queen's House nor Royal Observatory visible. Thames...

3. Royal Aquatic excursion to Greenwich Hospital.
	Despite being published over a year after the accession of Queen Victoria, this appears to show one of her uncle King William IV's visits to...

4. Roofs of London.
	William Lionel Wyllie (1851-1931) was born into an artistic family. He is well-known today as a splendid maritime artist. He painted a number of...

5. Scene below decks showing a man having a leg amputated.
	This rough sketch shows conditions in the cockpit of a naval vessel during battle. Wounded men are helped into the area and lie injured across the...

6. Scenes in London docks.
	A selection of sketches by Cooke depicting scenes in the port of London. At the top of the page is a hulk - an old ship converted into a floating...

7. Shipping on the Thames.
	A busy river scene showing shipping on the River Thames. The artist emphasises the Custom House and other buildings on the City bank of the Upper...

8. Shipbreaking opposite Wapping.
	Shipbreaking, which was once an important business in London, is the process of dismantling an obsolete vessel’s structure for scrapping or...

9. Seige of Oporto.
	During the Napoleanic Wars Portugal was invaded by the French. The Portuguese royal family and court to flee across the Atlantic to Rio de Janeiro,...

10. Searching for fault after recovery of the cable from the bed of the Atlantic - July 31st.
	On 29 July 1865, with 634 miles (1020 km) of cable laid, another break in the electrical signal was recorded on the instruments. On examination,...


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