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Containing smallpox in Victorian London, Smallpox in Victorian London |
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| © National Maritime Museum, London |
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| Repro ID: PY0771 |
| Description: 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 'Dreadnought' and become the second floating Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital at Greenwich, where she remained until 1870. In 1871, she was brought back briefly to accommodate patients recovering from smallpox during the severe epidemic of that year. |
| Creator: Henry Andrews Luscombe (artist), engraved by Thomas Goldsworth Dutton |
| Date: 1845 |
| Credit line: National Maritime Museum, London | |
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