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water transport: cargo vessel: clipper
water transport: cargo vessel: clipper, opium
water transport: cargo vessel: coolie ship
water transport: cargo vessel: junk, trading
water transport: cargo vessel: junk, war
water transport: fighting vessel: aircraft carrier (HMS)
water transport: local craft (China)
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water transport: sailing vessel: brigantine
water transport: sailing vessel: clipper, barque rigged
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Fontenaye 1864
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The American steamship 'Hankow' at Hankow (Painting)
A junk in a heavy sea (Painting)
Shipping off Canton (Painting)
Shipping in the Pearl River off Honam Island, Canton (Painting)
Trial of Four British Seamen at Canton, 1 October 1807: Scene Inside the Court (Painting)
river boat (Drawing)
rice boat (Drawing)
Chinese junk, with ornate deck house and masts attached to the roof (Drawing)
Chinese junk, with lugsails and awning over the bow (Drawing)
Chinese junk, with ornate deck house and rowed from the bow (Drawing)
Chinese junk with a single mast and sail (Drawing)
Chinese fishing sampan, water compartments on board to store the fish and a net on supports on one side of the vessel (Drawing)
Common salt junk (Drawing)
Duck boat (Drawing)
Sea-going ship (Drawing)
Chinese fishing sampan, with a net at the bow and alongside, with water compartment in centre of the vessel (Drawing)
Chinese sampan carrying a cargo of fruit and vegetables (Drawing)
Chinese junk, single sail and oars, with a small sampan in the foreground (Drawing)
Chinese houseboat with a sampan in foreground (Drawing)
Two covered sampans, one smaller than the other (Drawing)
Sampan adapted for housing ducks (Drawing)
Chinese junk, two masts and a covered deck, brightly painted (Drawing)
Two Chinese sampans of different sizes (Drawing)
Two sampans, one carrying plants in fancy pots (Drawing)
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