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1. London from Greenwich Park.
	A view from the top of the hill by the Observatory, with a weekend or holiday crowd including a Greenwich Pensioner with a wooden leg, another hiring...

2. Naval School, Greenwich & Block Model Ship.
	This appears to be a view of the first 'Fame', the drill ship constructed in 1843 for the 'sea exercises' of boys of the Greenwich Hospital School. ...

3. Outside the children's hospital, Shadwell.
	Mothers and their children wait for admission outside the East London Hospital for Children in Shadwell. This charity hospital, founded thanks to the...

4. Plan of Trinity Almshouses.
	A plan of the Trinity Almshouses at Deptford, which were built in 1670 for 'decayed masters and commanders of ships, mates, and pilots, and their...

5. King George (Greenwich Pensioner).
	A depiction of 'King George' one of the Greenwich Pensioners. Greenwich Hospital was built for seamen in 1695. Seamen contributed sixpence a month...

6. Jack, hove down - with a grog blossom fever.
	This cartoon makes much play on the drinking habits of sailors. 'Jack' is shown ill in his hammock surrounded by bottles of 'grog' or naval rum. The...

7. Greenwich Hospital.
	The Royal Hospital for Seamen, Greenwich was founded by Queen Mary and William III in 1694 as a refuge for sick and elderly seamen. The buildings,...

8. Greenwich Hospital.
	An engraving of Greenwich Hospital, after Robert Schnebbelie, produced for Dr Hughson's 'Description of London'.

9. *HMS Caledonia* lying in Plymouth Sound.**
	HMS 'Caledonia', a 120-gun ship built during the Napoleonic War and once Admiral Pellew's flagship in the Mediterranean. In 1857 she was renamed the...

10. *HMS Endymion* rounding the Horn in the first Flying Squadron.**
	The frigate HMS 'Endymion', launched in Deptford in 1865. She served in the Mediterranean, and visited Australia in 1869-70 as part of the famous...


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