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presentation artifact: sporting trophy: cup
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surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, liquid
water transport: sailing vessel: cutter
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Handmann, Emanuel Jakob
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Thames Navigation & Port of London Committee
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Albertus de Haller (Drawing)
HMS Icarus? (Drawing)
Cup presented by Thames Navigation & Port of London Committee, 1858. (Cup)
Type PEX U/4 (Liquid compass)
Liquid compass
Liquid compass and binnacle
Liquid compass Card
Pickford's Wharf number 3, August 1976 (Print)
Petropaoloski, Aratska Bay, Kamschatka (Drawing)
Caleta Buena - plan of soundings November 1882. Benj. Handley (Chart; Print)
Liquid compass
H.M.S. Amphitrite in the Ice. Sea of Ochotska. Lat. 53o 50'.n. Lony 142o OO'.E (Drawing)
Her Majesty's Ships Amphitrite & Trincomalee Beating out of San Francisco on Sepr 23rd 1854 (Drawing)
Johann Paul Jones, Besehlshaber einer Schwadron in Dien sten... (Print)
Atalanta in a squall (Drawing)
The brig Atalanta (Drawing)
Liquid compass
Liquid compass
Thames Navigation & Port of London Committee, 1858. (Cover)
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