Salvage

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Salvage may refer to:

  • Marine salvage, the process of rescuing a ship, its cargo and sometimes the crew from peril
  • Water salvage, rescuing people from floods.
  • Salvage tug, a type of tugboat used to rescue or salvage ships which are in distress or in danger of sinking
  • Recycling, the conversion of waste materials into new materials and objects, was usually referred to in the mid-20th century as "salvage"
    • Salvage for Victory, a US Government campaign to salvage materials for the American war effort in World War II
    • Paper Salvage 1939–50, a British government campaign to encourage the recycling of paper, initially to aid the war effort
  • Data salvage, the process of data recovery from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible primary storage media
  • Salvage archaeology, an archaeological survey and excavation carried out in areas threatened by construction or development
  • Salvage ethnography, the practice of salvaging a record of what was left of a culture before it disappeared
  • Salvage therapy, medical treatment for those patients not responding adequately to first line treatment

Business

  • Waste sorting
  • Salvage value, the estimated value of an asset at the end of its useful life

Arts and entertainment

  • Salvage (1921 film), a 1921 American silent film directed by Henry King
  • Salvage (2006 film), a 2006 American horror film
  • Salvage (2009 film), a 2009 British horror film
  • "Salvage", an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  • Salvage 1, a 1979 ABC science fiction-comedy series
  • "Salvage" (The X-Files), a 2001 episode of the television series The X-Files
  • "Salvage" (Angel), a 2003 episode of the television series Angel
  • Salvage, a 1962 episode in the Hallmark Hall of Fame
  • Salvage (Transformers), an Autobot from Transformers
  • "Salvage" (short story), a 1986 short story by Orson Scott Card
  • Salvage, a 1919 novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • "Salvage", an episode of the television show The Expanse

Other

  • Salvage, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
  • Extrajudicial punishment resulting in death is referred to as salvage in the Philippines
  • Salvage title, a form of vehicle title branding in North America

See also

  • Lifesaving
  • Selvage (disambiguation)
  • Wrecking (shipwreck)
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