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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)
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)
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)
The Great Eastern on her first trial trip. Left her moorings September 8, 1859. (Also) Sectional view of the Great Eastern... engineer I. K. Brunel (Print)
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)
Sailors' encampment before Sebastopol The Bellerophon Doves (caricature) (Print)
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)
Wreck of Her Majesty's Steam Frigate 'Birkenhead' on the 26th February [1852] (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)
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)
Panoramic view of the capture of the Mamelon & Quarries by the Allied Armies, June 7th 1855 (Print)
Review of the Fleet at Spithead by her Majesty, Aug 11, 1853, commencement of the Action (Print)
The Combined Fleets of Great Britain and France in Besika Bay (Print)
The Great Eastern off Holyhead... engineer I.K. Brunel (Print)
Read's Illustrations of the Russian War. Retreat of the Russians to the North Side of Sebastopol on the night of the 8th of September 1855 (Print)
Bomassund and its fortifications, in the Aland Islands... after the arrival and disembarkation of the combined British and French forces... (Print)
Launch of HMS Royal Albert screw steamer, 131 guns, at Woolwich, May 13, 1854. Bow view (Print)
London from Greenwich Park (Print)
Launch of HMS Royal Albert screw steamer, 131 guns, at Woolwich, May 13, 1854. Portside view (Print)
The Leviathan (Great Eastern) Steam Ship, Inside and Out (portside view and cross section) (Print)
Greenwich Hospital. River Front (Print)
Greenwich Hospital. River Front (Print)
The Fortress of Sweaborg and town of Helsingfors in the Gulf of Finland... (Print)
The Fortress of Sweaborg and town of Helsingfors in the Gulf of Finland... (Print)
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