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Astronomical and navigational instruments
Astronomical and navigational instruments
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Astrolabes and quadrants
Celestial navigation
Charting instruments
Compasses
Course, speed and distance indicators
Electronic navigation
Globes and globe gores
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Adjusting pin
Anemometer
Aneroid barometer
Aneroid barometer---
Artificial Glass Horizon
Artificial horizon
Artificial Mercurial Horizon
Artificial mercurial horizon
Astronomical instrument
astronomical t&e: astronomical instrument
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic
Barometer
Bottle, water collecting
Box Sextant
Box sextant
Bushes
Bust
Case for Sextant
Clock
Compass
Course indicator
Course Indicator, Battenberg's
Current Meter
Current meter
data processing t&e: computing instrument: indicator, station speed & distance
deck, poop
Dial clock
documentary artifact: ship plan: body
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, forecastle
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, gun
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, orlop
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, poop
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper(fore)
documentary artifact: ship plan: hold
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard
documentary artifact: ship plan: sail
documentary artifact: ship plan: section
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, midship
documentary artifact: ship plan: sheer
documentary artifact: ship plan: shell expansion
documentary artifact: ship plan: watertight compartments, general arrangement
drafting t&e: rule, measuring
drafting t&e: rule, parallel
drafting t&e: station pointer
Drawing
electrical & magnetic t&e: magnetometer
Engine indicator
Eyepiece
Eyepiece section
Forecastle deck plan
Frame
hold
Hood
Inboard profile plan
Indicator, engine
Key
Lid for Sextant
Lower deck plan
Magnetometer
Measuring rule
meteorological t&e: barometer, aneroid
Naval telescope
Night telescope
optical t&e: telescope
original art: sculpture: bust
Painting
Pantograph
Parallel rule
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Quintant
Quintant box
Quintant telescope
sail
section
Sextant
sextant
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Sextant telescope
Shaded eyepiece
sheer
Sight-tube
Station, speed and course indicator
Station, speed and distance indicator
Station pointer
Station speed & distance indicator
Sun compass
surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon
surveying & navigational t&e: compass
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, sun
surveying & navigational t&e: course indicator, Battenberg's
surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: bottle, water collecting
surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: meter, current
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, box
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant: quintant
Suspension spring
Technical drawing
technical drawing
Telescope
timekeeper: clock, dial
Upper deck plan
Wall clock
Water collecting bottle
Water collecting bottle.
watertight compartments, general arrangement
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 5th rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 74 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: corvette, composite (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: corvette, steel (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: cutter
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (France)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat, composite (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat, torpedo (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunvessel, wood (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, composite (HMS)
water transport: service vessel: hulk, sheer
water transport: service vessel: troopship, iron (HMS)
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aquatint, coloured
baize
black ink
blue colourwash
blue ink
blue wash
bone
brass
bronze
brown colourwash
brown wash
burnt sienna ink
etching
glass
green wash
grey colourwash
grey wash
inorganic: glass
lead
leather
Leather
linen backed paper
mauve wash
mercury
metal
metal: alloy
metal: brass
metal: brass, anodised
metal: chrome
metal: silver
metal: steel
metal: white metal
metal alloy
mezzotint
mica
oil on canvas
orange wash
organic: paper
paper
pen & ink & wash, grey
perspex
pink wash
red colourwash
red ink
resin
silver
steel
string
synthetic: perspex
textile
textile padding
Tisbury stone
wood
wood: ebony
yellow wash
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Banchatt, E. S.
Brydon, I.
Dollond & Aitchison
Durnford, Elias
Elliot, George
Elliott
Elliott & Fry
Elliott & Fry Ltd
Elliott, Edward
Elliott, Frank Westcombe
Elliott, G. E.
Elliott, George E.
Elliott, J.
Elliott, J. H.
Elliott, Thomas
Elliott, William
Elliott and Garrood Ltd
Elliott Bros
F. W. Elliott Ltd
Frasi, F.
George Lee & Son
Green, V
Green, Valentine
James, W
Jefferys, Thomas
Laboratoire Hydrographique
Smyth, Hervey
Unknown
William Elliott & Sons
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England
Herstmonceux
London
Plymouth Dockyard
Portsmouth Dockyard
Sheerness Dockyard
Southsea
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Events
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Events
American War of Independence: Siege of Gibraltar, 1779
Founding of the Royal Observatory, 1675
French Revolutionary Wars, 1792-1802
Transit of Venus, 1874
Vessels
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Vessels
Vessels
Andromeda (1777)
Andromeda (1897)
Arrow (1871)
Bellerophon (1865)
Bonetta (1871)
Bristol (1775)
Buzzard (1887)
Carnatic (1783)
Caroline (1882)
Champion (1878)
Cornwallis (1813)
Daphne (1888)
Dolphin (1882)
Dromedary (purchased 1873)
Duncan (1901)
Egmont 1765 [British navy]
Egmont 1768 [HMS]
Frolic (1872)
Gannet (1878)
Goshawk 1872
Grappler 1880
Grasshopper (1887)
Hector (1774)
Pomona (1778)
Pomona 1778 [HMS]
Quail (1830)
Ruby 1776 [British navy]
Sans Pareil (1793)
Semillante (1791)
Southampton (1757)
Stirling Castle 1775 [British navy]
Stirling Castle 1775 [HMS]
Sultan (1870)
Thisbe (1783)
Ulysses (1779)
Venus (1758)
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Barrow Shipbuilding Co Ltd
Crispin, William
Crommelin, Andrew
Deacon, George
Edye, John
Fitzclarence, Lord Adolphus
Flamsteed, Reverend John
French Navy
Hawkes, Thomas F.
HM Dockyard, Chatham
HM Dockyard, Sheerness
Howe, Richard
J. and G. Rennie
John Elder & Co
Jones, Harold Spencer
King George III
King George V
King William IV
Malin, Stuart
Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries Laboratory
Pembroke Dockyard
Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Raylton Dixon & Co
Royal Navy
Spiller, W.
Thames Iron Works Shipbuilding & Engineering Co
VII, King Edward
William Edye
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Forecastle deck plan
'Quail' (1830) (Technical drawing)
'Cornwallis' (1813) (Technical drawing)
Upper deck plan
Gannet (1878) (technical drawing)
deck, poop
Inboard profile plan
hold
Upper deck plan
Gannet (1878) (technical drawing)
Lower deck plan
Lower deck plan
sail
sail
sail
Inboard profile plan
Darke's Patent High Speed Indicator (Engine indicator)
Richards' improved patent steam-engine indicator (Engine indicator)
Richards' improved patent steam engine indicator (Engine indicator)
Mark III (Course Indicator, Battenberg's)
Case for Sextant
Sextant telescope
Shaded eyepiece
Sextant telescope
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