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After the War. Hong Kong and the Treaty Ports
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water transport: cargo vessel: merchantman
water transport: cargo vessel: merchantman (Netherlands)
water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 2 decker (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 2 decker (Netherlands)
water transport: fighting vessel: 3 decker (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 5th rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 6th rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 46 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 48 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 56 gun ship (Netherlands)
water transport: fighting vessel: 58-72 gun ship (Netherlands)
water transport: fighting vessel: flagship (Netherlands)
water transport: fighting vessel: man o' war (UK)
water transport: fighting vessel: pirate (Barbary)
water transport: fighting vessel: warship (Netherlands)
water transport: fishing vessel: pink, fishing
water transport: service vessel: raft (Netherlands)
water transport: unknown function: barge
water transport: unknown function: brigantine (Mediterranean)
water transport: unknown function: craft (Netherlands)
water transport: unknown function: galjoot (Netherlands)
water transport: unknown function: hooker
water transport: unknown function: kaag (Netherlands)
water transport: unknown function: ship (Netherlands)
water transport: unknown function: ship (UK)
water transport: unknown function: smack
water transport: unknown function: weyschuit (Netherlands)
water transport: unknown function: wijdschip (Netherlands)
water transport: yacht
water transport: yacht, bezan (Netherlands)
water transport: yacht, boeier (Netherlands)
water transport: yacht, royal (HMY)
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Bol, Ferdinand
Bouwmeester, Cornelis
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the Younger, after Willem van de Velde,
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First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Scheveningen, 1653
Nine Years' War: Battle of La Hougue, 1692
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Second Anglo-Dutch War: Attack on the Medway, 1667
Second Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Lowestoft, 1665
Second Anglo-Dutch War; 1665-1667
Second Anglo–Dutch War: Four Days Fight, 1666
Sweden-Denmark War: Battle of The Sound, 1658
Third Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Solebay, 1672
Third Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Texel, 1673
Third Anglo-Dutch War: Battles of Schooneveld, 1673
War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Vigo Bay, 1702
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Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
Turmoil and Tranquillity
Unseen: The Lives of Looking by Dryden Goodwin
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Ships becalmed off a coast (Drawing)
Ships driving ashore on the rocks (Drawing)
Two English ships with the wind on the port quarter (Drawing)
The 'Guernsey' before a light breeze (Drawing)
A Dutch ship close-hauled (Drawing)
Two English ships before a light breeze (Drawing)
Two English ships before the wind (Drawing)
A dismasted Dutch flagship off a low coast (Drawing)
A ship close-hauled in a strong breeze (Drawing)
The square mainsail and topsail of a small vessel (Drawing)
A ship scudding in a heavy sea (Drawing)
An English ship before the wind under easy sail (Drawing)
Pinks and Weyshuits hauled ashore (Drawing)
A smalschip Close-hauled and a Dutch flagship under easy sail (Drawing)
A large Dutch ship with a quartering wind (Drawing)
A Dutch flagship furling her sails (Drawing)
Studies of the lead of the main sheet of a small vessel (Drawing)
Portrait of the Akerboom (Drawing)
A ketch and two flyboats before the wind (Drawing)
Portrait of the Briel? Built 1688 30 guns. Taken by French 1695 (Drawing)
A fight in boats (Drawing)
A small English pink close-hauled (Drawing)
A kaag ashore with ships at anchor in the distance (Drawing)
Shipping in light airs off Wieringen (Drawing)
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