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Marine bubble Sextant battery
Marine bubble Sextant battery
Wreck of Her Majesty's Steam Frigate Birkenhead on the 20th February off Point Danger near the Cape of Good Hope, with 630 Passengers & Crew, 438 of whom were lost (Print)
Sir Alan Gardner Bart Admiral of the Blue & M.P. for the City of Westminster (Print)
Read's Illustrations of the Russian War. Bombardment & Capture of the Kinburn Forts, by the Allied Fleets of Great Britain & France, Septr 15th 1855 (Print)
Destruction by fire of the Amazon West India Mail Steamer in the Bay of Biscay Jany 4th 1852.... This sketch represents the ill fated vessel settling down by the Starboard Bow (Print)
Destruction by Fire of the Amazon Mail Steamer of 2250 Tons burden in the Bay of Biscay Jany 4th 1852 on Her first voyage from Southampton to Chagres, with 50 Passengers and 106 Crew & attendants, the greater number of whom were lost. Engraved from a sketch made by one of the Survivors (Print)
Sir Humphrey Davy (Print)
The Right Honourable Robert Earl & Viscount Yarmouth Baron of Baston Lord Lieutenant Vic & Admiral of the County of Norfolk (Print)
Wreck of the Sophia (Print)
Sir Thomas Allin (Print)
Sailors' encampment before Sebastopol The Bellerophon Doves (caricature) (Print)
Nelson (Print)
Admiral Viscount Nelson (Print)
Nelson (Print)
Testing telescope batteries
Marine bubble Sextant battery
Panoramic View of the Bombardment of the Great Fortress of Sweaborg, by the Allied Fleets of Great Britain and France, on the 8th & 9th of August, 1855.... (Print)
The Combined Fleets of Great Britain and France in Besika Bay (Print)
Panoramic view of the capture of the Mamelon & Quarries by the Allied Armies, June 7th 1855 (Print)
Landing of the British division at the Old Fort, near Sebastopol. The view here represented is from the off-shore side of the ships from which the troops disembarked and formed line abreast on signal from the Agamemnon (Print)
Awful wreck of the Queen Victoria Dublin Mail Steam Packet in a snow storm on the Howth Rocks, Coast of Ireland between 2 & 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning February 15th 1853.... (Print)
Wreck of Her Majesty's Steam Frigate 'Birkenhead' on the 26th February [1852] (Print)
Sir Alan Gardner Bart. Admiral of the Blue, & M.P. for the City of Westminster (Print)
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