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documentary artifact: ship plan: armour, general arrangement
documentary artifact: ship plan: body
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, main
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, platform
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper
documentary artifact: ship plan: plating, expansion of outer bottom
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard(part)
documentary artifact: ship plan: rudder
documentary artifact: ship plan: sail
documentary artifact: ship plan: section
documentary artifact: ship plan: sheer
documentary artifact: ship plan: watertight compartments, general arrangement
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water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship, broadside (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship, turret (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: corvette (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, 2nd class (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, 3rd class (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, light (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, torpedo (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate, armoured (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat, composite steam
water transport: fighting vessel: gunvessel, steam (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, paddle (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: tug, paddle (HMS)
water transport: passenger/cargo vessel: troopship, paddle (HMS)
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black ink
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drafting cloth
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iron gall ink
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manuscript iron gall ink
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Chief Constructor
Duddy, M
Euer, H
Hall, H O
Harding, A
HM Admiralty
Hufill, A
James, W
Laird, John
Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd
United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)
Velde, Willem van de, the Elder
Vickers-Armstrong Limited
Yarrow & Company Limited
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Second Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Lowestoft, 1665
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Active (1869)
Aetna (1883)
Agincourt (1865)
Ajax (1880)
Ajax (1934)
Albacore (1883)
Alban (1826)
Albert (1840)
Albion (1842)
Alecto (1839)
Alecto (1882)
Alert (1856)
Algerine (1857)
Algiers (1854)
Amazon (1865)
Ambuscade (1926)
Archer (1885)
Ardent (1841)
Arethusa (1882)
Jaseur (1857)
Jasper (1857)
Lee (1857)
Leven (1857)
Mistletoe 1883
Polyphemus (1840)
Slaney (1857)
Watchful (1883)
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Angear, J.
Barnaby, Nathaniel
Deadman, H. E.
Deptford Dockyard
Edye, John
Elliott, J.
Euer, H
Grey, The Hon. Frederick William
Harding, A
Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport
HM Dockyard, Chatham
Huddy, J.B.
J. & G. Thomson & Co
Laird Brothers
Laird Brothers Ltd
Owen, W.
Paget, Clarence Edward
Pembroke Dockyard
Plymouth Dockyard
Reed, Edward James
Robert Napier & Sons
Robinson, Robert Spencer
Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd
Thames Iron Works Shipbuilding & Engineering Co
Velde, Willem van de, the Elder
Warren, E C
Watts, Isaac
Westwood Bailey
Wildish, J.
Yarrow & Company Limited
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Arethusa (1882) (Technical drawing)
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