Skip to main content
Membership
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Royal Museums Greenwich
Main navigation
Menu
Royal Museums Greenwich
Search
Close
Plan your visit
Back
Plan your visit
Tickets and prices
Getting here
Accessibility
Family visits
Group visits
School visits
Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Adult: £22 | Child: £11
Members go free
Free
National Maritime Museum
National Maritime Museum
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Free
Queen's House
Queen's House
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Royal Observatory
Royal Observatory
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Adult: £24 | Child: £12
Members go free
What's on
Back
What's on
Exhibitions
For families
Member events
Talks and tours
National Maritime Museum
Exhibitions
Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition
See the world's greatest space photography at the National Maritime Museum
National Maritime Museum
Events and festivals
Diwali at the National Maritime Museum
Lantern parades, dance performances and rangoli workshops: celebrate the Festival of Lights in Greenwich
National Maritime Museum
Exhibitions
Pirates
Explore the myth, discover the truth: Pirates at the National Maritime Museum is now open
Stories
Back
Stories
Maritime history
Space and astronomy
Art and culture
The ocean
Time
Royal history
ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 winners
The winning images in the world's biggest space photography competition have been revealed
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
A history of the Royal Observatory in six objects
Explore 350 years of the world-renowned institution and the people who worked there through six intriguing objects
Collections
Back
Collections
Conservation
Research
Donating items to our collection
Collections Online
Search our online database and explore our objects, paintings, archives and library collections from home
The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre
Come behind the scenes at our state-of-the-art conservation studio
Caird Library
Visit the world's largest maritime library and archive collection at the National Maritime Museum
Learn
Back
Learn
School trips and workshops
Self-guided school visits
Online resources and activities
Booking an on-site schools session
Booking a digital schools session
Young people and youth groups
Support us
Back
Support us
Become a member
Donate
Corporate partnerships
Become a patron
Leave a legacy
Commemoration and celebration
Our sites
Cutty Sark
National Maritime Museum
Queen's House
Royal Observatory
Membership
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Beta
Back to All Results
Explore our Collection
Objects
Library
Archive
Search our collection
Filters…
Search
Item Category
Select…
Item Category
Item Category
Figureheads
Apply Filter
Type
Select…
Type
Type
Bailer
Binnacle and liquid compass
Binnacle part
engine, aero
Figurehead
Hull
hull, oil tanker [fragment]
Hull [fragment]
Keel
light, catadioptric
lighting device: light, catadioptric(optic with clock mechanism, 2nd order)
Mast
Oar
Racing speedboat
Rigging
Rudder
Seat
Shackle
Speed-boat
Stern Fragments
surveying & navigational t&e: binnacle(liquid compass)
Tiller
water transport: cargo vessel: merchantman (French) ?
water transport accessory: figurehead(fragment)
water transport accessory: figurehead(full length)
water transport accessory: figurehead(half length)
water transport accessory: figurehead(three quarter length)
Apply Filter
Materials
Select…
Materials
Materials
Alloy
asbestos
brass
electrical wiring
glass
inorganic: glass
iron
lead paint
metal
Metal
metal: brass
metal: lead
pine
Plastic
plastic
rubber sealing
steel
synthetic: glass
wood
Wood
wood (pine)
Wood, Metal
wood: pine
wood: pine ?
wood: wych elm
Apply Filter
Display Location
Select…
Display Location
Display Location
Display - Ocean Court
Apply Filter
Creator
Select…
Creator
Creator
Barbier
D. Napier & Sons Ltd
Dickerson, Frederick
Hellyer & Son
Jack Holt Ltd
James Dove & Co
Kelvin & Hughes Ltd
Perry, John
Scott-Paine, Hubert
Stevenson, D. A.
The British Power Boat Company
Apply Filter
Places
Select…
Places
Places
Acton
Blackwall Yard
Paris
Plymouth Dockyard
Portsmouth Dockyard
Putney
Southampton
United Kingdom
Unknown
Apply Filter
Vessels
Select…
Vessels
Vessels
Ajax (1809)
Atalanta (1847)
Blenheim (1813)
Bulldog (1845)
Coriolanus (1876)
Duguay Trouin (1800)
Frederick William (1860)
Gannet (1857)
Harlequin (1836)
Himalaya (1853)
Horatio (1807)
Implacable 1805 (HMS)
Leda (1828)
London (1840)
Megaera (1849)
Miss Britain III (1933)
Rainbow Warrior 1955
Speedwell E2 1956
Tribune (1853)
Apply Filter
People
Select…
People
People
Churchill, John
Coriolanus, Gaius Marcius, fl.488BC
Jack Holt Ltd
King Frederick William III of Prussia
Nelson, Horatio
Apply Filter
Century
Select…
Century
Century
18th
19th
20th
unknown
Apply Filter
Date Range
Select…
Date Range
Date From
Select...
1730
1795
1800
1801
1805
1806
1807
1809
1813
1820
1828
1836
1840
1845
1847
1849
1853
1857
1860
1876
1891
1902
1929
1933
1945
1955
1956
1993
Date To
Select...
1732
1800
1805
1807
1808
1809
1813
1815
1820
1828
1836
1840
1845
1847
1849
1853
1857
1860
1876
1891
1900
1902
1929
1933
1955
1956
1965
1993
Apply Filter
Show only:
With images
Applied Filters
Display - Ocean Court
Clear all
showing 43 objects results
Sort by
Relevance
Object title/name
Object title/name (desc)
Finding reference
Finding reference (desc)
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)
Oar
A full-length polychrome figurehead of a bulldog from the wooden paddle sloop HMS Bulldog (1845). (Figurehead)
Oar
A half-length polychrome bust figurehead of a Tribune from the Roman Republic, taken from the Second Class screw frigate HMS Tribune (1853). (Figurehead)
Oar
Keel
A large bust-length polychrome figurehead of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) from the 74-gun Third Rate two-decker HMS Blenheim (1813). (Figurehead)
A polychrome half-length bust figurehead (no arms) depicting Harlequin for the 16-gun wooden Second Class brig Harlequin (1836). (Figurehead)
Bailer
A three-quarter length figurehead of the huntress Atalanta from HMS Atalanta (1847) (Figurehead)
Seat
A three-quarter-length polychrome male figurehead representing a Saracen warrior from the iron screw troopship HMS Himalaya (1854). (Figurehead)
A three-quarter length figurehead of Megaera from the troopship HMS Megaera (1849). (Figurehead)
Binnacle part
Tarbat Ness Light (light, catadioptric)
Binnacle Type 72782 (Binnacle and liquid compass)
MV 'Sea Empress' hull (Hull [fragment])
Binnacle part
First
Prev
Page
1
Current page
2
Next
Last
Loading filters
Royal Museums Greenwich
Close
Search
Want to search our collection? Search here.
Back To Top