Figures
0.1‘The Signal for an Engagement’ (1838), in Charles Napier Robinson, The British Tar in Fact and Fiction: The Poetry, Pathos, and Humour of the Sailor’s Life (London: Harper, 1911), p. 478.
1.1Mother and child watch a ship on the River Wear, c. 1880. Photo credit: Sunderland Antiquarian Society.
1.2Joseph Clark, ‘A young sailor has returned to his aged parents after running away to sea’. Engraving by Lumb Stocks after Joseph Clark (c. 1880s). Credit: Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark.
2.1S9617-001 Journal of Sidney Smith on board the Whampoa, September 1867–April 1868. © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
3.1P39610 3-masted barque Penang in dry dock at Millwall 1932. © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
4.1The North-West Passage, 1874. Sir John Everett Millais. Tate, Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894. Photo: Tate.
4.2‘Looking Out for Father’. Illustration by Harold Copping, in Hesba Stretton, Little Meg’s Children (London: Religious Tract Society, 1905).
4.3Illustration from Elizabeth Whittaker, ‘Robina Crusoe, and Her Lonely Island Home’, Girl’s Own Paper, 23 December 1882, p. 184.
4.4‘“The Sailor’s Home-Coming” – By Klinkenberg’, Illustrated London News, 17 September 1892.