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anchor, sea
auriscope
bag, oil
bag, water
beacon, radio distress
Bone forceps
box, sea bag oil
box, sterilizing
breeches buoy
buoyancy aid
Cannula
Catheter
Chemistry set
clothing accessory: wrist band, anti-seasickness
Coastal distress pack
container: jar
documentary artifact: instructions
documentary artifact: replica, lifejacket
drum winder, line throwing
Emergency lifebuoy marker
Emergency life line
emergency lighting marker
first aid box
flare, manoverboard
flare apparatus, portable
floating light
Forceps
function unknown: tube
Inshore distress pack
Instructional poster
Jar
kit, first aid
Lancet
lantern, naval emergency
lifebelt
Lifebelt
lifebuoy
lifejacket
life jacket
Lifejacket
Life jacket
Lifejacket cover
life saving collar
Lifesaving gear
lifesaving gear
lifesaving t&e: breeches buoy
lifesaving t&e: buoyancy aid
lifesaving t&e: collar, life saving
lifesaving t&e: cover, lifejacket
lifesaving t&e: drum winder, line throwing
lifesaving t&e: frame, line throwing
lifesaving t&e: frame, line throwing(Manby)
lifesaving t&e: lifebelt
lifesaving t&e: lifebuoy
lifesaving t&e: lifejacket
lifesaving t&e: lifejacket(child's)
lifesaving t&e: lifejacket(child)
lifesaving t&e: lifesaving gear
lifesaving t&e: lifesaving gear: box(3)
lifesaving t&e: lifesaving gear: box, sea bag oil(2)
light, lifejacket
light, lifejacket clip on
lighting device: tin, match(lifeboat)
line, pistol rocket
line throwing frame
line throwing frame lid
Liston knife
Male urethral sound
Match tin
medical & psychological t&e: auriscope
medical & psychological t&e: box, medicine
medical & psychological t&e: box, medicine(homeopathic)
medical & psychological t&e: box, sterilizing
medical & psychological t&e: chest, medicine
medical & psychological t&e: first aid box(complete)
medical & psychological t&e: medical supplies
medical & psychological t&e: opthalmic instruments(set)
medical & psychological t&e: saw
medical & psychological t&e: surgical instruments
medical & psychological t&e: surgical instruments(set)
medical & psychological t&e: syringe
medical supplies
Medicine balance
Medicine chest
mirror, mayday sun signalling
mortar tracer shell
mortar tracer shell, section
Mount for lifebouy
Mount for lifebuoy
Needle case
Notice
opthalmic instruments
personal gear: bag, water
personal symbol: coat of arms, royal
pistol, rocket
replica, lifejacket
rocket
rocket apparatus, pistol
Safety pins
Scalpel
Scalpels
Sea bag oil boxes
shot, harpoon
shot, line throwing
sling
sound communication t&e: beacon, radio distress
stencil, lifejacket
stencil, lifejacket [2]
stencil, lifejacket [3]
stool, survival
Surgical brush
Surgical elevator
Surgical hook
Surgical instruments
surgical instruments
Surgical knife
Surgical needle
Surgical saw
surgical saw
Surgical tenaculum
Surgical trepan
Surgical trephine
Surgical trephine screw
surveying & navigational t&e: wallet, escape and evasion(six)
Sutures
Syringe
syringe
telecommunication t&e: wireless, lifeboat
Thermometer
Trocar
Tube
tube, rocket firing
Unidentified wooden object
vest, flotation
visual communication t&e: flare, manoverboard
visual communication t&e: flare apparatus, portable
visual communication t&e: light, floating
visual communication t&e: light, lifejacket
visual communication t&e: light, lifejacket clip on
visual communication t&e: marker, emergency lighting(dummy)
visual communication t&e: mirror, mayday sun signalling
visual communication t&e: rocket
visual communication t&e: rocket apparatus, pistol
wallet, escape and evasion
water transport: cargo vessel
water transport: cargo vessel: tanker, oil
water transport: fighting vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, armoured
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, light
water transport: fighting vessel: submarine
water transport: fishing vessel: trawler
water transport: passenger vessel: passenger liner
water transport: recreation vessel: power boat
water transport: sail assisted vessel: schooner, screw
water transport: sailing vessel
water transport: service vessel: barge
water transport: service vessel: lifeboat
water transport accessory: anchor, sea
water transport accessory: bag, oil
water transport accessory: coastal distress pack
water transport accessory: inshore distress pack
water transport accessory: kit, first aid
water transport accessory: lifebelt
water transport accessory: lifebuoy
water transport accessory: lifebuoy(perrybuoy)
water transport accessory: lifejacket
water transport accessory: lifejacket(child)
water transport accessory: lifejacket(Merchant Navy)
water transport accessory: life line, emergency
water transport accessory: line, pistol rocket
water transport accessory: pistol, rocket
water transport accessory: shell, mortar tracer(Manby)
water transport accessory: shot, harpoon
water transport accessory: shot, line throwing
water transport accessory: sling
water transport accessory: stool, survival
water transport accessory: tube, rocket firing
water transport accessory: vest, flotation
weights & measures t&e: balance, medicine
wireless, lifeboat
wrist band, anti-seasickness
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aluminium
Bakelite / Phenol Formaldehyde (PF)
bone
brass
bri nylon
bristle
canvas
cardboard
copper
cord
cork
cork. Colour white, red, blue and black.
cotton
glass
gut
inorganic: glass
ivory
kapok
leather
mahogany
metal
metal: aluminium
metal: aluminium alloy
metal: brass
metal: brass [fittings]
metal: brass [handles]
metal: brass [handle]
metal: brass [hinges & lock]
metal: brass [hinges, pans & weights]
metal: brass [stand]
metal: copper
metal: copper [box]
metal: iron
metal: steel
metal: steel [balance]
metal: steel [blade]
metal: unknown
mother of pearl
organic: bone
organic: canvas
organic: cork
organic: cork [tops]
organic: cotton
organic: fabric
organic: hair
organic: ivory [drawer knobs]
organic: kapok
organic: kapok
organic: leather
organic: leather [case]
organic: leather [lid lining]
organic: papier mache
organic: rope
organic: rubber
organic: silk
organic: velvet [lining]
paper
plastic
Polypropylene (PP)
polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
rubber
silk
Stainless steel
steel
steel (stainless)
synthetic: glass [bottles]
synthetic: glass [phials]
synthetic: nylon
synthetic: plastic
synthetic: polystyrene
synthetic: unknown
synthetic textiles
textile
tortoiseshell
velvet
wax
wood
wood: mahogany
wood: mahogany [box]
wood [handle]
wool
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Display - Cutty Sark
Display - Nelson, Navy, Nation Gallery
Display - Polar Worlds Gallery
Display - ROG
Display - Sea Things Gallery
Display - Voyagers
Not on display
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Allen & Hanbury's
Avery, W & T
B C B International Ltd
Boddy Life Saving Appliances Ltd
Bryant and May
Burroughs, Wellcome & Co
Cary
Duncan
Evans & Co
Ferguson
Fosbery & Co Ltd
Gould, Edward
Gowland, George
Hart, William, & Co Ltd
Hart-Imco
Henri-Lloyd Ltd
Holmes Lights Co
J. Gardner & Son
J. Weiss & Son
John Millikin
Locat Developments Ltd
Manby, George William
Maw
Moore, S. V.
Nicki Clothing Company (IOM) Ltd
Pains Wessex Ltd
Perrybuoy
Reece Mace Manufacturing Co Ltd
Schermuly, Augustus William
Sea-Band Ltd
Siebe Gorman & Co Ltd
Simpson Lawrence (Clayton First Aid Equipment)
Smith, William
Stonards Ltd
Tapatco Ltd
Ton & Co
Townshend, Charles William
Union Mills
Unknown
Walters
Watts, O M, Capt, Ltd
Watts Fincham & Co
WEFCO
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Places
Barking
Chessington, Surrey, England
Church Walk, Hinckley, Leicestershire, England
City of London
Douglas
Edinburgh
England
Germany
Great Britain
Great Yarmouth
Kingston-Upon-Hull
London
Magog, Quebec, Canada
Newdigate, Surrey, England
Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Unknown
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Antarctic Exploration: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916
Arab-Israeli conflict: Suez Crisis, 1956
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
World War I, 1914-1918
World War I: Battle of Coronel, 1914
World War I: Battle of Jutland, 1916
World War I: Scuttling of the German Fleet, 1919
World War II, 1939-1945
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Vessels
Arendal Polstad
Beechwold (1895)
Bengloe (1961)
Bokn (1917)
Chakdina (1951)
Chester (1915)
City of Sydney (1930)
Cornelia 1912 [Netherlandish]
Edward Cruse fl.1967
Emden (1916)
Esso Guildford 1957
Finn
Flid 1872 [Norwegian]
Gneisenau (1906)
Miss Britain III (1933)
Naiad fl.1916
P 30
Petrel (1901)
Queen Elizabeth (1913)
Skaubryn (1951)
Sparkling Foam
Strathlairg
Tatiana (1909)
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Nelson, Navy, Nation
The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire
Voyagers
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Achmuty, Arthur
Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham
Childers, William Henry
Colbeck, William
Foster, Robert Lionel
Gar, Alexis Joseph
Gilbert, Frank
Greater London Council
Gruggen, W. J.
Hammill, James William
Horne, James
Ibbotson, William, Temp Surgfl.
King Alfred of the West Saxons
Livingstone, David
Macklin, Alexander Hepburne
Moss, Frank Sharphouse
Outram, Benjamin Fonseca
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Royal United Service Institution
Scott-Paine, Hubert
Sielow, Annefried
Tizard, Thomas Henry
Townshend, Charles William
Union-Castle Line
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Thomas W. Lawson (lifebelt)
Chemistry set
Medicine balance
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box, sterilizing
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Liston knife
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Liston knife
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wireless, lifeboat
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