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1. Greenwich Hospital.
	The Royal Hospital with a steamer, sailing ship, passenger barges and rowing boats on the River Thames.

2. Cooking.
	The ship's cook is preparing dinner. Although he is plucking a fresh chicken, most meat used was preserved in barrels of salt. Hard biscuit was more...

3. Greenwich Pensioner.
	Pastel image of a pensioner cleaning his glasses. Pensioners were admitted to the hospital from 1705 and originally wore a uniform of dark grey with...

4. In Irons for Getting Drunk.
	The regular rations of alcohol in the Royal Navy, especially rum, often led to drunkeness among sailors. Drink was a major cause of crime and...

5. *The Dreadnought, 104 Guns. At present lying off Greenwich for the Seamen's Hospital.*
	HMS 'Dreadnought' (1801) served as a hospital ship for the Seamen's Hospital, founded in 1821 to care for sick and injured seafarers in the merchant...

6. Captain Bullock's safety beacon erected on Goodwin Sands.
	This etching, taken from the 'Nautical Magazine', shows Captain Bullock's safety beacon being erected on Goodwin Sands, a notorious stretch of shoals...

7. Bell Rock lighthouse during a storm from the north east.
	The Bell Rock is an almost submerged red sandstone reef situated approximately 12 miles from Arbroath. The conical granite and sandstone tower was...

8. The Discovery convict ship at Deptford, by EW Cooke.
	While under construction as a merchant ship in a Thames yard, the 'Discovery' was purchased in November 1789 by the Admiralty, which was looking for...

9. The Nore Light ship, by WL Wyllie.
	The Nore is a sandbank at the mouth of the Thames. It is marked by various buoys and by a lightship with a revolving light. This ship lies about...

10. A (Green)wich Pensioner.
	A caricature of Greenwich Pensioners watching a young sailor. They are mocking the fact that he might serve on a 'new-fangled' steamer.


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