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

flood A flood is an overflow of water ( or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrol ...

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Salvage tug A salvage tug, known also historically as a wrecking tug, is a specialized type of tugboat that is used to rescue ships that are in distress or in danger of sinking, or to salvage ships that have already sunk or run aground. Overview Few tugbo ...

, a type of tugboat used to rescue or salvage ships which are in distress or in danger of sinking *

Recycling Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. The recovery of energy from waste materials is often included in this concept. The recyclability of a material depends on its ability to reacquire the p ...

, 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 Paper Salvage was a part of a programme launched by the British Government in 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War to encourage the recycling of materials to aid the war effort, and which continued to be promoted until 1950. History The ...

, a British government campaign to encourage the recycling of paper, initially to aid the war effort * Data salvage, the process of

data recovery In computing, data recovery is a process of retrieving deleted, inaccessible, lost, corrupted, damaged, or formatted data from secondary storage, removable media or files, when the data stored in them cannot be accessed in a usual way. The dat ...

from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible primary storage media *

Salvage archaeology Rescue archaeology, sometimes called commercial archaeology, preventive archaeology, salvage archaeology, contract archaeology, developer-funded archaeology or compliance archaeology, is state-sanctioned, archaeological survey and excavation carr ...

, an archaeological survey and excavation carried out in areas threatened by construction or development *

Salvage ethnography Salvage ethnography is the recording of the practices and folklore of cultures threatened with extinction, including as a result of modernization. It is generally associated with the American anthropologist Franz Boas; he and his students aimed t ...

, 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

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Waste sorting Waste sorting is the process by which waste is separated into different elements. Waste sorting can occur manually at the household and collected through curbside collection schemes, or automatically separated in materials recovery facilitie ...

Salvage value ''Residual value'' is one of the constituents of a leasing calculus or operation. It describes the future value of a good in terms of absolute value in monetary terms and it is sometimes abbreviated into a percentage of the initial price when the i ...

, the estimated value of an asset at the end of its useful life

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* ''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) There have been many publishers of a book (some with accompanying audio cassettes) bearing the name ''Transformers'' based on the toy lines of the same name. Most common are Ballantine Books and Ladybird Books. Novels ''The Transformers Trilogy' ...

, an Autobot from ''Transformers'' * "Salvage" (short story), a 1986 short story by Orson Scott Card * ''Salvage'', a 1919 novel by

Mary Roberts Rinehart Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie.Keating, H.R.F., ''The Bedside Companion to Crime''. New York: Mysterious Press, 1989, p. 170. Rinehart published her fir ...

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Salvage, Newfoundland and Labrador Salvage is a town located on the Eastport Peninsula of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town had a population of 108 in the Canada 2021 Census. CBC Radio host Michael Enright (The Sunday Edition) calls the walk from Salv ...

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Extrajudicial punishment Extrajudicial punishment is a punishment for an alleged crime or offense which is carried out without legal process or supervision by a court or tribunal through a legal proceeding. Politically motivated Extrajudicial punishment is often a fea ...

resulting in death is referred to as ''Salvage'' in the Philippines *

Salvage title In North America, a salvage title is a form of vehicle title branding, which notes that the vehicle has been damaged and/or deemed a total loss by an insurance company that paid a claim on it. The criteria for determining when a salvage title i ...

, a form of vehicle title branding in North America

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