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Billet head
ceremonial artifact: figurehead, funeral(full length)
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furniture, ship's: sideboard
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water transport: cargo vessel: brig, collier
water transport: cargo vessel: merchantman (French) ?
water transport: fighting vessel: three-decker (Spanish)
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water transport accessory: figurehead(model)
water transport accessory: figurehead(three quarter length)
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water transport accessory: scroll carving
water transport accessory: scroll head
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Bevan, Ernest Roland
Bevan, Ernest Rowland
Dickerson, Frederick
Grayfoot & Overton
Hellyer & Son
Hughes, George
Perry, John
Puget, Pierre
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Williams, Nehemiah
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Blackwall Yard
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Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Belcher, 1852-1854
Nine Years' War: Battle of La Hougue, 1692
Torrey Canyon oil spill, 1967
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Adventure (1855)
Ajax (1809)
Albatross (1842)
Alessandro il Grande (Austrian brig)
Anson (1781)
Atalanta (1847)
Award (1859)
Bernado 1876 (Italian)
Bessie Whineray (1865)
Blenheim (1813)
Boreas 17C (French East Indiaman) ?
Bosphorous (1840)
Bristol (1861)
Britannia (1866)
Bulldog (1845)
Canopus (captured 1798)
Clown (1856)
Colossus (1787)
Corea fl.1890
Coriolanus (1876)
Daphne (1838)
Daring (1844)
Dee (1832)
Duguay Trouin (1800)
Durban 1870
Eagle (French) ?
Eliza fl.1867
Falkland 1889
Favourite 1829 (HMS)
Forester 1832 (HMS)
Franklin 1796 (French, captured)
Frederick William (1860)
Friar Tuck 1856
Gannet (1857)
Gleaner (1833)
H.M.S. Hogue (1811)
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Harlequin (1836)
Himalaya (1853)
Horatio (1807)
Implacable 1805 (HMS)
Indipendenza 1875 (Italian)
Intrepid 1837
Jane Owen 1860
Leda (1828)
Lofaro 1876 (Italian)
London (1840)
Maipu 1865
Mary Hay 1837
Megaera (1849)
Nicolas Bowater (1958)
Palinurus 1833
Penelope (1829)
Primos 1869 (Spanish)
Resolute (purchased 1850)
Richard Brown ?
River Lune 1868
Rosa Tacchini (date unknown)
Rosherville
Royal Charlotte 1824 (HMY)
Royal George 1817 (HMY)
Royal George 1827 (HMS)
Russell 1822 (HMS)
Salmon (1859)
Semiramis 1808 (HMS)
Serica (1888)
Seringapatam (1819)
Sophie (1857)
Sunbeam (1874)
Thames (1823)
Tribune (1853)
Victoria and Albert (1899)
Volunteer (1861)
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Nelson, Navy, Nation
Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames
Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton
The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire
The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea
Traders: The East India Company and Asia
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Backler, Henry
Bowater, Nicolas Charles Vansittart
Bowater SS Co Ltd, London
Brassey, Constance Alberta
Cardiff Royal Infirmary
Churchill, John
Coriolanus, Gaius Marcius, fl.488BC
Drayson, Alfred
Dunlop, James C.
King Frederick William III of Prussia
King George III
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Nelson, Horatio
Queen Charlotte, Consort of George III
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Rosher, Jeremiah Burch
Russell, Edward
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An oval, slightly curved plaque with a profile relief of Nicolas Bowater from the steel general cargo ship Nicolas Bowater (1958). (Plaque)
A three-quarter length gilded figurehead of Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), wife of King George III, from the Royal Yacht HMY Royal Charlotte (1824). (Figurehead)
The figurehead of a polar bear from the exploration ship HMS Resolute (1850) (Figurehead)
A three-quarter length figurehead of the huntress Atalanta from HMS Atalanta (1847) (Figurehead)
Cornucopia stern decoration (Stern decoration)
Hand from a female figurehead (Figurehead)
HMS Russell [Admiral Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford] (Figurehead)
A three-quarter-length polychrome male figurehead representing a Saracen warrior from the iron screw troopship HMS Himalaya (1854). (Figurehead)
A three-quarter length polychrome figurehead depicting a crowned female personification of the City of London from the 90-gun, Second Rate two-decker HMS London (1840). (Figurehead)
HMS Canopus (Figurehead)
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