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
• Salvage tug, a type of tugboat used to rescue or salvage ships which are in distress or in danger of sinking
• Vehicle salvage
• Salvage data, the process of extracting data 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