Skip to main content
Membership
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Royal Museums Greenwich
Main navigation
Menu
Royal Museums Greenwich
Search
Close
Plan your visit
Back
Plan your visit
Tickets and prices
Getting here
Accessibility
Family visits
Group visits
School visits
Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Adult: £22 | Child: £11
Members go free
Free
National Maritime Museum
National Maritime Museum
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Free
Queen's House
Queen's House
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Royal Observatory
Royal Observatory
Open daily 10am-6pm
Last entry 5.15pm
Adult: £24 | Child: £12
Members go free
What's on
Back
What's on
Exhibitions
For families
Member events
Talks and tours
National Maritime Museum
Exhibitions
ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition
See the world's greatest space photography at the National Maritime Museum
Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre
Events and festivals
Experimental Saturdays
Experimental Saturdays brings people together at the Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre for workshops that spark conversation, creativity and connection
National Maritime Museum
Family fun
Astronomers Take Over
This brand-new interactive gallery gives curious minds aged 4 to 104 the space to play, learn and explore!
Stories
Back
Stories
Maritime history
Space and astronomy
Art and culture
The ocean
Time
Royal history
Must-see artworks in the Queen's House
What to look out for in the inspiring new take on the Queen’s House’s displays in 2026
Night sky highlights - May 2026
May’s night sky brings a rare blue moon, meteors from Halley’s Comet, and a strange galactic hamburger. We’ll also explore Coma Berenices and use it to find star clusters and distant galaxies.
Making Waves: Dr Dawn Wright
Oceanographer and chief scientist Dr Dawn Wright on diving to the deepest part of the ocean – and why we need to stand up for our blue planet
Collections
Back
Collections
Conservation
Research
Donating items to our collection
Collections Online
Search our online database and explore our objects, paintings, archives and library collections from home
The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre
Come behind the scenes at our state-of-the-art conservation studio
Caird Library
Visit the world's largest maritime library and archive collection at the National Maritime Museum
Learn
Back
Learn
School trips and workshops
Self-guided school visits
Online resources and activities
Booking an on-site schools session
Booking a digital schools session
Young people and youth groups
Support us
Back
Support us
Become a member
Donate
Corporate partnerships
Become a patron
Leave a legacy
Commemoration and celebration
Our sites
Cutty Sark
National Maritime Museum
Queen's House
Royal Observatory
Membership
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Beta
Back to all results
Explore our Collection
Objects
Library
Archive
Search our collection
filters…
Search
Item Category
Select…
Item Category
Item Category
Apply Filter
Type
Select…
Type
Type
Back splice
Backstaff
Blackwall hitch
Blackwall hitch hook
Bowline
Bowline on a bight
Bracket
Carrick bend
Chain splice
Colour transparency
Common sennit
Cut splice
Diamond knot
documentary artifact: knot collection
documentary artifact: photonegative, film
Double carrick bend
Double Matthew Walker knot
Double sheet bend
Equatorial sector part
Fisherman's bend
Flemish eye
Four-stranded rope eye splice
Glass plate negative
Grommet
Hammock clew
Hook
Hook for midshipman's hitch?
Inside clinch
Knot
Knot collection
Long splice
Lower boom with jumping ladder
Man-rope knot
Marlin spike hitch
Marlin spike hitch?
Marlin spike model
Midshipman's hitch
Monochrome transparency
Mount
Outside clinch
Oval mat
Paunch mat
Pole
Roll film negative
Round mat
Round sennit
Running bowline
Sextant, part
Sheepshank
Sheet film negative
Short splice
Shroud knot
Sight/Vane
Single carrick bend
Single Matthew Walker knot
Single sheet bend
Spritsail sheet knot
Square sennit
surveying & navigational t&e: backstaff
Sword matting
Telescope
Three-stranded rope eye splice
Vane
water transport: passenger vessel: liner
water transport component: interior, vessel: music room
Winding key
Apply Filter
Materials
Select…
Materials
Materials
glass
metal
organic: fibre
organic fibre
Polyester negative
synthetic: acrylic fibre
wood
wood: boxwood
Apply Filter
Display Location
Select…
Display Location
Display Location
Not on display
Apply Filter
Creator
Select…
Creator
Creator
Bedford Lemere & Co
Garner, Will
Gilbert, John
National Maritime Museum
National Maritime Museum Photographic Studio.
Photographer, National Maritime Museum
Studio, National Maritime Museum Photographic
Apply Filter
Places
Select…
Places
Places
Chatham
Chatham Dockyard
Hythe
London
Unknown
Apply Filter
Vessels
Select…
Vessels
Vessels
Empress of Asia (1913)
John H Amos (1931)
Perseverance (1931)
Apply Filter
People
Select…
People
People
Beckwith, Fred
Cassidi, Desmond
Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd
Knowler, William
Merwe, Pieter van der
Ralph, Norman E.
Scott, Chief Petty Officer Thomas
Sugg, Philip Alexander
Williams, Aubrey
Young, Jack
Apply Filter
Date Range
Select…
Date Range
Date From
Select...
1735
1913
1937
1940
1949
1954
1960
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1983
1989
Date To
Select...
1745
1913
1937
1944
1945
1949
1954
1960
1963
1964
1965
1967
1968
1973
1983
1989
Apply Filter
Show only:
With images
Applied Filters
National Maritime Museum
Clear all
showing 615 objects results
Sort by
Relevance
Object title/name
Object title/name (desc)
Finding reference
Finding reference (desc)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire (Roll film negative)
First
Prev
Current page
1
Page
2
Page
3
Page
4
Page
5
…
Next
Last
Loading filters
Royal Museums Greenwich
Close
Search
Want to search our collection? Search here.
Back to top