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documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, forecastle
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Unnamed 225ft 3-masted armour clad turret ship as proposed by Cowper P. Coles, Captain, Royal Navy (1865) (Technical drawing)
Unnamed 225ft 3-masted armour clad turret ship as proposed by Cowper P. Coles, Captain, Royal Navy (1865) (Technical drawing)
Unnamed 225ft 3-masted armour clad turret ship as proposed by Cowper P. Coles, Captain, Royal Navy (1865) (Technical drawing)
Unnamed 230ft 3 masted turret ship proposed by Captain Cowper Phipps Coles (1863) (Technical drawing)
Unnamed 230ft 3 masted turret ship proposed by Captain Cowper Phipps Coles (1863) (Technical drawing)
Unnamed 225ft 3-masted armour clad turret ship as proposed by Cowper P. Coles, Captain, Royal Navy (1865) (Technical drawing)
Perpetual calendar
Theodolite
Come Back to Erin (Drawing)
Trial between H.M.S. Phaeton, Arethusa, Leander, and Indefatigable, March 13th 1851 (Print)
Well Done, Phaeton! (Print)
The Elevation of the Queens House to the Park at Greenwich Invented by Inigo Jones 1639 (Print)
Her Majesty's ship Queen... (Print)
Captain Bartho. Roberts with two Ships, Viz. the Royal Fortune and Ranger, takes ii Sail in Whydah Road on the Coast of Guiney, January 11th 1721/2 (Print)
A Representation of the Engagement between his Majesty's Ship the Monmouth Capt. Gardiner, & the Foudroyant a French Man of War, on ye 28th of Febry 1758. (Print)
Sketches of Shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. London Docks (Print)
Sketches of shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. Sheerness Yard from a window of the Fountain Inn (Print)
Sketches of shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. Surat Castle (Print)
Sketches of shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. An Indiaman in Barnard's Yard, Deptford (Print)
Sketches of shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. Basin at Blackwall (Print)
Sketches of shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. City Canal (Print)
Sketches of shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. Trafalgar 120 gns (Print)
Sketches of Shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. (Untitled) [Blackwall] (Print)
Sketches of Shipping Drawn and Etch'd by Henry Moses 1824. London Docks (Print)
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