Salvage

Salvage means 'rescue' and as such 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
• 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

In business

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

In 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, an 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

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, the uncut edge of woven fabric
• Wrecking (shipwreck)