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Astrolabes and quadrants
Celestial navigation
Charting instruments
Compasses
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Electronic navigation
Globes and globe gores
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Celestial navigational globe
Celestial navigational globe box
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clock, zig zag
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Current meter - indicator unit
Current meter - underwater indicator
Dry Compass Card
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Dry recording paper
Echo sounder
Echosounder
Globe gores
Lead line
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Liquid compass
Liquid compass magnifying glass
Manual
Marine radar
Marine radar - AP105831 Transmitter/Receiver Unit Radar
Marine radar - control indicator
Marine radar - Displa
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Marine radar - transmitter unit
Navigational globe
Navigational globe altitude circles
Navigational globe frame
Navigational globe pointer
Notices To Mariners
Notices to Mariners
NOT SIGHTED Marine radar - Power Unit
Paper roll
Parts for the current meter - underwater indicator
Pole
Power Transmission Unit
Power transmission unit
Radar display unit
Radar plotter
Ralston stability indicator
Record Annotator
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Rod for the current meter - underwater indicator
Rope for the current meter - underwater indicator
scale, fathom
Sextant
Sextant Box
Sounding lead and line
Sounding tube
surveying & navigational t&e: binnacle(liquid compass)
surveying & navigational t&e: circle, azimuth
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, steering: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: line, lead
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: scale, fathom(vin H)
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: sounder, echo(portable survey type)
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: traveller, lead(for Kelvin Sounding Machine)
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: tube, sounding(set of 10)
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: tube, sounding(set of 12)
surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: meter, current
surveying & navigational t&e: plotting instrument: plotter, radar
surveying & navigational t&e: radar equipment, marine: radar, marine
surveying & navigational t&e: radar equipment, marine: radar, marine(radar 18/12)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, box
surveying & navigational t&e: stability indicator, Ralston
Tachometer
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water transport: fighting vessel: aircraft carrier (HMS)
water transport accessory: binnacle
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Kelvin & Hughes Ltd
Ralston, Shirley Brooks
seller, Kelvin & Hughes Ltd
Thomson, William
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Chakdina (1951)
Ocean Monarch (ex Empress of England)
Rainbow Warrior 1955
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Triumph (1944)
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Kelvin & Hughes Ltd
Thomson, William
Wigzell, Eustace Ernest
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Liquid compass magnifying glass (Liquid compass magnifying glass)
Sounding tube
Sounding tube
Sounding tube
Sounding tube
MS 26A Mk 1 recording echo sounder (Echo sounder)
Sounding tube
Sounding tube
Sounding tube
Sounding tube
Celestial navigational globe (Navigational globe pointer)
Celestial navigational globe (Celestial navigational globe box)
Celestial navigational globe (Navigational globe pointer)
Celestial navigational globe (Navigational globe pointer)
Celestial navigational globe (Navigational globe altitude circles)
Ralston stability indicator
Operation and Service Manual for Marine Radar Type 18/12 (Manual)
clock, zig zag
Mate Sextant (Sextant)
Binnacle part
Marine Radar Type 18/12 (Radar display unit)
Tachometer
Recorder unit
Recorder Unit
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