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A Sea of Symbols
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water transport: cargo vessel: merchantman
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water transport: unknown function: brigantine (Mediterranean)
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water transport: unknown function: hooker
water transport: unknown function: kaag (Netherlands)
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Second Anglo-Dutch War; 1665-1667
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Kat ca.1665 [Dutch navy]
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Portland 1653 [British navy]
Portsmouth 1649 [British navy]
Portsmouth 1674 [British navy]
Postiljon ca.1666 [Dutch navy]
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Providence 1637 [British navy]
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Royal Escape fl.1600
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Royal Prince 1670
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Rupert 1666 [British navy]
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Sandadoes 1670 [British]
Sandwich 1679 [British navy]
Saudadoes 1670 [British navy]
Saudadoes 1673 [English navy]
Schager Roos 1665? [Dutch navy]
Seahorse 1694 [British navy]
Speedwell 1660 [British navy]
St. Michael 1669 [English navy]
St Andrew 1670 [British navy]
St David 1667 [British navy]
St David? 1667 [British navy]
St Paulus 1665
Success 1660 [British navy]
Suffolk 1680 [British navy]
Swann 1673 [British navy]
Thomas & Elizabeth 1688 [British navy]
Tiger 1647 [British navy]
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Windsor Castle 1678 [British navy]
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Zeven Provincien (1665)
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Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
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Unseen: The Lives of Looking by Dryden Goodwin
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The Battle of Solebay, 28th May 1672 (Painting)
The English Ship Royal Oak, 74 guns, built 1674 (Drawing)
Ships becalmed off a coast (Drawing)
E. Collectione Nathanielis Blackerby Armigeri. The Royal Sovereign of 1701 (Print)
An English flagship close-hauled in a light breeze (Drawing)
Ships driving ashore on the rocks (Drawing)
Portrait of the 'St David' (Drawing)
Two English ships with the wind on the port quarter (Drawing)
An English ship on the rocks (Drawing)
The 'Guernsey' before a light breeze (Drawing)
Portrait of the ‘Royal James’ (Drawing)
A Dutch ship close-hauled (Drawing)
Two English ships before a light breeze (Drawing)
An English frigate before a strong breeze (Drawing)
A vessel near the coast with people landing (Drawing)
Portrait of the 'Newcastle' (Drawing)
A smalschip and a despatch vessel with the Dutch fleet in light airs (Drawing)
An English ship close-hauled in a breeze (Drawing)
Two English ships before the wind (Drawing)
Portrait of the 'Speedwell' (Drawing)
A Dutch fleet getting under way in light airs (Drawing)
Sketches of a hoeker (Drawing)
A flute hove down and being burnt off (Drawing)
A dismasted Dutch flagship off a low coast (Drawing)
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