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Master of disguise: how a Navy sailor escaped a Napoleonic prison
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documentary artifact: ship plan: body
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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)
The Wreck of the Birkenhead, 1852 (Print)
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Wreck of H.M. Steamship 'Birkenhead', 26 February 1852 (Print)
Wreck of Her Majesty's Steam Frigate 'Birkenhead' on the 26th February [1852] (Print)
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