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1. The Battle of the Nile: Greenwich pensioners disputing the line of battle.
	The scene is outside a rustic riverside tavern, with a barn to the right, a working man carring a basket on his back along the shore, a ship laid up...

2. 'Poll of Horselydown' sung by Mr Grimaldi, at Sadlers Wells (caricature).
	'Poll of Horselydown', a song from 1807 portraying the dangers that could await seamen in the port. It tells the story of a Captain Oakum, robbed...

3. Greenwich Pensioner.
	A Greenwich Pensioner is enjoying a beer. Pensioners originally wore a uniform of dark grey with a blue lining and brass buttons. Later, the colour...

4. The flowing bowl, or sailors returned.
	Four sailors are sitting around a table in a cottage to rest and refresh after a long journey. Their bags are still unpacked and the sails of their...

5. The Salutation Tavern, Greenwich 1756 (caricature).
	The view shows fishwives and oysterwomen landing the catch from boats at the inn's river steps, with others boats beyond along the waterfront. A...

6. To Count Edmund Batthyany... Royal Albert Yacht Club, this Print of his Schooner Yacht Flying Cloud in the... Match of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, June 8th 1870... dedicated by Josiah Taylor
	This American yacht 'Flying Cloud' is a schooner because she has two masts. Before their recreational use, schooners were used in the coasting trade...

7. The window into the port

8. Greenwich Hospital.
	This engraving, based on an 1840 painting by Clarkson Stanfield, shows 'Poor Jack' (Tom Saunders), his Greenwich Pensioner father and his sister,...

9. Greenwich Hospital.
	A print commemorating the visit of the Duke of Clarence (later King William IV) to the Greenwich Hospital in January 1828. Along the waterfront is a...

10. Yacht racing in Long Reach, by EW Cooke.
	The cutter yacht 'Success' and other vessels taking part in the race at Long Reach. This is also a river scene with a hay barge, a steam paddler and...


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