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1. Ships of the General Steam Navigation Company. The Triton... lying off the Company's Works, Deptford Creek.
*Ships of the General Steam Navigation Company. The Triton... lying off the Company's Works, Deptford Creek. A picture of the steamship 'Triton' (1845). The General Steam Navigation Company Works are shown in the distance. The General Steam Navigation...
2. Sinking of HMS Royal George at Spithead.
*Sinking of HMS Royal George at Spithead. The 'Royal George', a 100-gun first-rate, was launched at the Royal Dockyard in Woolwich in 1756. She had taken ten years to build. Keeled over for...
3. Sir George Biddell Airy, Seventh Astronomer Royal (1835 -81).
*Sir George Biddell Airy, Seventh Astronomer Royal (1835 -81). Lithograph of the 7th Astronomer Royal, Sir George Biddell Airy. He is depicted from the waist up, wearing a jacket, waistcoat, shirt and bow tie and...
4. Sir Joseph Banks Bt. President, F.R.S.
*Sir Joseph Banks Bt. President, F.R.S. Banks was President of the Royal Society, and naturalist and patron of the sciences. When the Royal Society was successful in initiating Captain...
5. Ships of the General Steam Navigation Company, off Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall.
*Ships of the General Steam Navigation Company, off Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall. The vessels shown are the 'Clarence' of 800 Tons, leaving for Leith, the 'Leith' of 1000 tons arriving from Leith, and the 'Columbine' of 500 tons...
6. Shipping on the Thames.
*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...
7. Searching for fault after recovery of the cable from the bed of the Atlantic - July 31st.
*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,...
8. Seige of Oporto.
*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,...
9. Sheet music cover for 'Les Petits Matelots, Characteristic Rondo'.
*Sheet music cover for 'Les Petits Matelots, Characteristic Rondo'. An image used on the front cover of a piece of sheet music, showing the band of the Royal Naval Asylum with the audience around the training ship.
10. Shipbreaking opposite Wapping.
*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...
 
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