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What does a carved coconut shell have to do with one of the most deadly pirates in history? Dr Robert Blyth follows the story of Bartholomew Roberts, and the 'forgotten pirate hunter' Captain Chaloner Ogle
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Testing, measuring and design instruments
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Course, speed and distance indicators
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Abacus
Altimeter, pocket
Balance
balance, coin
balance, letter
Barrel slide rule
Bathythermograph
boat frame mould
calculator
Calculator
Calculator, manual
Chart weight
Computer, petrol motor
Currency balance
curve
curves, draughtsman's
data processing t&e: computing instrument: indicator, stability & trim ?
drafting t&e: curve
drafting t&e: curves, draughtsman's
drafting t&e: drawing instruments
drafting t&e: instruments, drawing(shipwrights)
drafting t&e: rule
drafting t&e: straight edge
drafting t&e: weight, draughtsman's
drafting t&e: weight, draughtsman's(shipwrights)
Draughtsman's Tools
Draughtsman's tools
Drawing and indicator diagram scales
Drawing curve
drawing curves
drawing instruments
Drawing instruments
Eidograph
Electric, calculator
Electric calculator
G. M. Balance
Gauge
Gauge, micrometer
gauge, rope
Gunnery deflection tables
Heliograph
Horsepower computer
Indicator, slide valve
indicator, stability
instruments, drawing
Integraph
Integrator
Loadacator
Machine, calculating
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measure
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Pen, drawing
Planimeter
Polar planimeter
propeller pitchometer
Ralston stability indicator
Rolling parallel rule
rule
Rule, parallel
Rule, slide
Ruler
Salinometer
sampling device, cargo
sampling stick, fish meal
Scale, triangular
Scale rule
Set of Imperial Measures
Set square
Set Square
set square
shipbuilding t&e: gauge, rope(rigger's)
Ship trimmer
Slide Rule
Slide rule
Stability & trim indicator
Stability and trim indicator
Stability indicator
Stability indicator weights box
Steel Rule
straight edge
surveying & navigational t&e: stability indicator, Ralston
Surveyor's chain
T-Square
Templates, gun
test kit, boiler water
Viscometer
viscometer, portable
water transport: sailing vessel: cargo vessel (steel schooner)
water transport accessory: calculator
water transport accessory: heliograph
water transport accessory: indicator, stability
water transport accessory: instrument, navigational
water transport accessory: loadacator
water transport accessory: mould
water transport accessory: test kit, boiler water
water transport accessory: viscometer
water transport accessory: viscometer, portable
Weighing machine
weight, chart
weight, draughtsman's
weights & measures t&e: balance, coin
weights & measures t&e: balance, letter
weights & measures t&e: chain, surveyor's
weights & measures t&e: measure
weights & measures t&e: ruler
weights & measures t&e: sampling stick, fish meal
Welding Gauge
woodworking t&e: square(shipwrights)
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metal [chair nails]
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A. G. Thornton Ltd
AB Atvidabergs Industrier
Aristo
Bryan Corcaran Ltd
Carbic Limited
Cary
Central Developments Limited
Cooke, Troughton & Simms
Craven, Edwin
D&E Bailey
Day and Millward Ltd
De Grave & Co
Dobbie McInnes Ltd
Dring & Fage
Elmslie, I. E.
F. Robson & Co
G. & C. Dixey, G & C Dixey
G. Coradi
Golding, Henry
Gordon, A. M.
Griffin & Co
Harling, W H
Horten Verft A/S
Hudson & Son
James Chesterman and Co
Kelvin & Hughes Ltd
Lilley & Son
Linex
Ralston, Shirley Brooks
Thompson and Mercer
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Vickers Armstrong Limited
W. F. Stanley & Co Ltd
W. H. Harling
Wright, H B
Zeiss, Carl
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Carpentaria (1949)
Energy Concentration 1970
Fern 162 LK 1910
Maggie Helen 160LK 1904
Mijdrecht 1912 (There are 2 vessels of this name the other is of 1931)
Ocean Monarch (ex Empress of England)
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Hood, Chief E. R. A. Ralph
Jellicoe, John Rushworth
Parry, Wesley
Phillips, Conquest & Damala
Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd
Watts, Philip
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Draughtsman's Tools
Steel Rule
Loadacator
T-Square
boat frame mould
Integrator
Polar planimeter
Amsler type integrator (Integrator)
Stability indicator weights box
Slide rule
Pen, drawing
Drawing curve
Set of templates for draughtsmens' use showing types of guns used c.1845 (Templates, gun)
Rolling parallel rule
Welding Gauge
Rule, parallel
Planimeter
Rule, slide
Drawing curve
Gauge, micrometer
Scale rule
Planimeter
Drawing curve
Gunnery deflection tables
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