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41.
Convicts breaking up the prison hulk
York
(1807).
The 74-gun third-rate HMS 'York' (1743 tons) was launched in 1807. After seeing action during the Napoleonic Wars, she served as a prison hulk at...
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Dinner from on board a ship at Gravesend.
Seamen in the Royal Navy ate and slept on the lower deck between the guns. Each man had two hammocks, one in use and one clean. By this time, the...
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Gentleman giving alms to a beggar.
Alms are charitable donations of money or food to the poor. During the 19th century, the dock labourers and their families existed in a state of...
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Greenwich Hospital
, by Clarkson Stanfield.
A watercolour of the buildings of the Royal Hospital for Seamen by Clarkson Stanfield, the leading marine painter of his day. In 1844, Stanfield...
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