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ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 winners
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Cutty Sark’s new binnacle: charting a course for heritage crafts
A navigational case shines a light on traditional skills – and prompts intriguing questions into the tea clipper’s history
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4. Astronomy and print
Captain George Pechell Mends (circa 1814 – 1871)
Caricatures
Green Blackwall collection
Herschel family
Lieutenant Gabriel Bray (1750–1823)
Maritime Art Greenwich
Michael Graham-Stewart collection
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Nicholas Pocock
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armament accessory: horn, powder
armament t&e, ammunition: shot, grape(part)
armament t&e, artillery: gun
armament t&e, artillery: lantaka
armament t&e, artillery: mortar
armament t&e, firearm: blunderbuss
armament t&e, firearm: gun, boat
armament t&e, firearm: musket
armament t&e, firearm: musketoon
Blunderbuss
Boat Gun
Boat gun
building: lighthouse
building: lighthouse fortress
Bust
Bust of Barbary Pirate
Carbine
ceremonial artifact: flag
Chart
Compass
Cutlass
Dividers
documentary artifact: model, ethnographic boat
drafting t&e: dividers
Engraving
Flag
Full hull model
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame
Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set
Grape shot
Gun
Hanger
Lantaka
lantern
lighting device: lantern
Mace
Mariner's compass
Medal
Mortar
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Musketoon
Navy Board, Full hull model
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painting, oil
personal gear: pipe
Pike
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Powder horn
presentation artifact: box, snuff
presentation artifact: centrepiece, table
Presentation Sword
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roller printed textile
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surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's
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water transport: cargo vessel
water transport: cargo vessel (medieval)
water transport: cargo vessel: junk, trading
water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 20-24 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 50 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 74 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: brig, gun (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: man o' war (Spain)
water transport: fighting vessel: pirate, Barbary
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, paddle (HMS)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails furled)
water transport: model, vessel: full hull model(decked)
water transport: model, vessel: skeleton model(decked)
water transport: sailing vessel: ship, 3 masted
water transport accessory: carving, stern(Netherlands)
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amber horn
aquatint
black steel
brass
bronze
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canvas
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cast iron
copper
copper wire
cotton
donkey-skin
etching
fish-skin
frame, plank on
fruitwood
gilded silver
gilt
gilt wire
glass
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hand sewn
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ink
inorganic: clay
iron
lead
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line block
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metal: brass
metal: iron
metal: steel
metal: tin
metal thread
mica
oak
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organic: cotton
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paint
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terracotta
textile
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walnut
walrus ivory
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wood
wood: pine
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Brenet, Louis
British School, 18th century
Brodie, A
Chambers, George
Chinese School, 19th century
Clark, John Heaviside
Crespin Fuller, Crespin
Crump, Francis
D., A.
Daniell, William
Dodd, Robert
Dreyse, Franz Von
Dublin Castle
Dudley
Eade, Jonathan
Elder, Thomas Wyon the
Fuller (possibly), Crespin Fuller
Gerard
Henry Bolitho, Henry
Kinman, F
Lawrence, Thomas
Leigh, Toby
Lely, Peter
Lieutenant Page
Manufacture Nationale de St Etienne
Mudie, J.
Nam-Sing
Osborn
Page
Paton, Richard
Price, Charles
R. Wilson, R
Reddell & Bate
Richards
Rundell, Bridge & Rundell
Salame, Abraham
Serres, Dominic
Sibley, J.
Sibley, John
Storr, Paul
Strachan, Alexander James
Stretch, Matt
Stretch, N
style of Sir Godfrey Kneller
Tatham & Egg
Unknown
Vroom, Cornelis Hendricksz
Woolley
Wyllie, William Lionel
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Carey's Court, Dale End, Birmingham, England
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Masqat
Portsmouth
Portsmouth, England
St. Etienne, France
United Kingdom
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Wapping
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Bombardment of Algiers, 1816
Boxer Rebellion, 1900
First Opium War, 1840-1842
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
Operations against the Pirates of Malacca Straits, 1836-1870
Second Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Lowestoft, 1665
Second Anglo-Dutch War; 1665-1667
Second Anglo–Dutch War: Four Days Fight, 1666
Seven Years' War: Capture of Geriah, 1756
Sinking of the St Mathias, 1667
Third Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Solebay, 1672
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Andromache (1832)
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Melville (1817)
Nessus 1926 [HMS]
Oliver Cromwell
Pitt (1816)
Serpent 1832 (HMS)
Superb 1798 (HMS)
Victory (1765)
Ville de Paris (1764)
Vindictive (1813)
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Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire
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Turmoil and Tranquillity
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Army of Guangdong
Bevis, A. E.
Brenet, Louis
Chads, Henry Ducie
Chuiapoo, Chuiapoofl
Crofton, Edward
Defoe, Daniel
Dudley
Ekins, Charles
Elder, Thomas Wyon the
Evans, Mary
Everard, James
French Navy
Friendly, Alfred
Friends and Associates of Evemouth
Gerard
Gore, Honourable Colonel William J.
Gore, Honourable Robert
Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, James
Hay, John Charles Dalrymple, Capt
HM Admiralty
Honourable East India Company
Hou, T'ien
Hunter, J A H
Jellicoe, John Rushworth
King George IV
Li Jishen
Lowry, James
Merchants & Underwriters of Bombay
Mudie, J.
Myngs, Christopher
Nelson, Horatio
Netherlands: Navy
Ogle, Chaloner
Osborn
Pellew, Edward
Pym-Hale, Thomas
Reddell & Bate
Reed, P.
Royal Navy
Royal Netherlands Navy
Rundell, Bridge & Rundell
Shovell, Cloudesley
Society for the Suppression of Piracy
Spinney, J. David
St Christopher's, Assembly of
Sultan, Sa'id Ibn
Tatham & Egg
Temple, Richard Barker Cobb
Tsai, Shap Ng
Woolley
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Powder horn
Powder horn
Hanger
Cutlass
Pike
Cutlass
Pike
Table centrepiece (Table centrepiece)
Pike
Gold presentation box (Snuff box)
Pike
Pike
Mauser Model 71 (Carbine)
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A View of the European Factories at Canton (Painting)
The Pirates of Penzance (Poster)
'A Pirate hanged at Execution Dock' (Print)
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