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Astronomical and navigational instruments

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Astrolabes and quadrants

Celestial navigation

Charting instruments

Compasses

Course, speed and distance indicators

Electronic navigation

Globes and globe gores

Meteorological instruments

Optical equipment

Sundials

Telescopes

Ship models

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Cargo vessels

Dockyards, buildings, and topography

Exploration and research vessels

Fishing and hunting vessels

Lifeboats and lifesaving vessels

Passenger vessels

Powered warships

Racing and pleasure craft

Royal yachts and ceremonial craft

Sailing warships

Service vessels

Small craft

Timekeeping

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Astronomical regulators and precision clocks

Chronometers, precision watches and timekeepers

Domestic clocks and watches

Other horological instruments

Type

Accommodation model

Anchor model

Anchor winch model

armament accessory: carriage, gun

armament accessory: carriage, gun (sprocket driven)

armament accessory: gun screen

armament accessory: limber

armament t&e, artillery: carronade

armament t&e, artillery: carronade, model

armament t&e, artillery: gun

armament t&e, artillery: gun, field

armament t&e, artillery: model, field gun(equipped: working)

armament t&e, artillery: model, gun

astronomical t&e: polisher

backboard

Barrel organ

Bed settee

Block model

Bookcase

Box

Builder's, Full hull model

Bureau

calculator

Capstan/windlass model

Capstan model

Carronade model

Carrying case for the marine chronometer

Carving

carving

Casket

Cask model

ceremonial artifact: casket, launching

Chair

Chest

Chest of drawers

Chisel

chronometer, marine

Chronometer Watch

Chronometer watch

Cigarette box

Circular stand

Cistern barometer

Clinometer

Clock

Component model

Component model; Keel model

Component model; Rudder model

Component model; Sectional model

container: box, fitted(compass equipment) ?

Cupboard

data processing t&e: computing instrument: recorder, heel & trim

Deck watch

Deck Watch

Design, Block model

Design, Full hull model

Design, Half block model

Design, Sectional model

Desk

documentary artifact: model, cask(pair)

Door frame

Double Steering wheel model

drafting t&e: drawing instruments

drawing instruments

Embroidery-frame

Embroidery frame

Equipment model

Equipment model; Anchor model

Equipment model; Anchor model; Sectional model

Equipment model; Anchor winch model; Capstan model

Equipment model; Firehearth; Galley

Equipment model; Gun model

Equipment model; Mast and spar model; Sails set

Equipment model; Propeller model

Equipment model; Steering gear model

Equipment model; Windlass model

Field gun model

Firehearth

Fitted box

food storage t&e: cask, harness

Frame model

Full hull model

Full hull model; Block model

Full hull model; Block model; Rigged model

Full hull model; Block model; Scenic model

Full hull model; Equipment model; Hunting sledge

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame

Full hull model; Rigged model

Full hull model; Rigged model; Spritsail sailing barge; Plank-on-frame

furniture, relic: table

furniture, ship's: bed, settee

furniture, ship's: bookcase(folding)

furniture, ship's: chest, medicine ?

furniture, ship's: chest, travelling(RN Officer's)

furniture, ship's: frame, door

furniture, ship's: glass holder

furniture, ship's: mantelpiece ?

furniture, ship's: mirror

furniture, ship's: secretaire, naval

furniture, ship's: sideboard

furniture, ship's: table, side

furniture, ship's: table, tipping

furniture, ship's: washstand

furniture: bookcase

furniture: box

furniture: bureau

furniture: chair

furniture: chest

furniture: chest of drawers

furniture: chest of drawers(military style)

furniture: clock, longcase

furniture: cupboard

furniture: desk

furniture: desk, writing

furniture: sideboard

furniture: table

furniture: table, work

furniture: wardrobe

Gallery

Galley

Gavel

Glass holder

Glove box

Gun model

Half block model

Half frame model

Half hull model

Half midship

Hankerchief box

Heel and trim recorder

household accessory: box, glove

household accessory: frame, photo

household accessory: stand, circular(hat stand) ?

Hunting sledge

inclinometer

Instructional, Accommodation model

Instructional, Sectional model

Instrument case

Keel model

Launching casket

Longcase clock

Longitudinal model

Longitudinal model; Sectional model

Mantelpiece

Marine chronometer

Marine timekeeper

Mast and spar model

Mast and spar model,

Mechanical deck log

Mechanical ship log

medical & psychological t&e: box, medicine(homeopathic)

medical & psychological t&e: chest, medicine

Medicine chest

Mercury angle barometer

Mercury barometer

meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury(cistern barometer)

meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury(domestic angle barometer)

meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury(marine stick cistern barometer)

meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, cistern(domestic)

meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, cistern(domestic double angle barometer)

meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, cistern(marine)

meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, cistern(public)

meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, stick(marine barometer, cistern)

meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, stick(marine ship's barometer, cistern)

meteorological t&e: barometer, sympiesometer(Thermometer (sympiesometer))

meteorological t&e: thermometer

meteorological t&e: thermometer, standard

meteorological t&e: thermometer component: case

Midship model

Midship model; Sectional model; Half hull model

Midship modelSectional model

Mirror

Mirror grinding and polishing apparatus

musical t&e: barrel organ, chamber

Naval secretaire

Octant

Octant with Artificial Horizon

One day marine timekeeper

one day marine timekeeper.

Ordnance model

Ordnance model; Field gun model

personal gear: case, instrument

personal gear: smoking gear: box, cigarette

personal symbol: coat of arms

personal symbol: coat of arms, royal

Photo frame

Plank-on-frame

Pocket chronometer

Pocket watch

Polisher

polisher

presentation artifact: casket

Prisoner of war work, Full hull model

Propeller model

Quintant

relic, ship: timber

relic, ship: timber(saloon)

Rigged model

Rudder

Rudder model

rule

Sails set

saw, keyhole

Scenic, Dividing model

Scenic model

Secretaire

Secretaire bookcase

Sectional model

Sectional model; Component model

Sectional model; Midship model

Sectional model; Midship model; Equipment model

Sectional model; Midship model; Half frame model

Sectional model; Stern model

Sextant

Shield

Ship equipment model

Ship equipment modelSteering wheel model

Sideboard

Side table

Spritsail sailing barge

square, bevel

Stand

Standard thermometer

Steering gear model

Steering quadrant model

Steering wheel model

Stern model

Stern model; Sectional model

Stern model; Sectional model; Frame model

Stick barometer

Structural model

Structural model; Topographical model; Sectional model

surveying & navigational t&e: clinometer

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, surveying

surveying & navigational t&e: instruments, scientific

surveying & navigational t&e: log, mechanical(navigator's rough log)

surveying & navigational t&e: octant

surveying & navigational t&e: octant(with artificial horizon)

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant

Surveying compass

Sympiesometer barometer

Table

table

textileworking t&e: frame, embroidery ?

Thermometer

Thermometer case

Timber

timekeeper: chronometer, marine

timekeeper: chronometer, marine(8 day)

timekeeper: chronometer, pocket

timekeeper: clock, long case

timekeeper: timekeeper, marine(K2)

timekeeper: watch, pocket

timekeeping t&e: clock, longcase

Tipping table

Topographical model

Travelling chest

Trinket box

Wardrobe

Washstand

Watch

Watch 'K2'

water transport: cargo vessel

water transport: cargo vessel: clipper, tea

water transport: exploration/research vessel: bomb vessel (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel

water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 5th rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 24 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 38 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 40 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 51 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 74 gun ship (French)

water transport: fighting vessel: armour-plated

water transport: fighting vessel: battleship

water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (Portuguese)

water transport: fighting vessel: guardship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat (Danish)

water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat, double-ended

water transport: fighting vessel: ironclad (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: turret ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: warship (HMS)

water transport: model, design: block model(half)

water transport: model, design: full hull model(decked)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: scenic)

water transport: model, exhibition: sectional model(decked: equipped: midship: side: davit: working)

water transport: model, instructional: block model(scenic)

water transport: model, vessel: full hull model(decked)

water transport: model, vessel: full hull model(equipped)

water transport: muscle powered vessel: skiff, rowing

water transport: recreation vessel: yacht, steam

water transport: sailing vessel

water transport: sailing vessel: barge, spritsail (Medway)

water transport: sailing vessel: cutter

water transport: sailing vessel: ship, 3 masted (Portuguese)

water transport: service vessel: cutter, clinker built

water transport: service vessel: drifter

water transport: service vessel: lighter

water transport: steam vessel

water transport: steam vessel: screw, single

water transport: steam vessel: screw, twin

water transport: steam vessel: screw vessel

water transport accessory: anchor

water transport accessory: anchor, fluke

water transport accessory: anchor, shank

water transport accessory: backboard

water transport accessory: calculator

water transport accessory: capstan

water transport accessory: carving

water transport accessory: carving, crown

water transport accessory: inclinometer

water transport accessory: model, anchor

water transport accessory: model, anchor(fluke)

water transport accessory: model, anchor(shank)

water transport accessory: model, capstan/windlass(decked: working)

water transport accessory: model, steering quadrant(working)

water transport accessory: model, steering wheel(working)

water transport accessory: model, windlass

water transport accessory: propeller apparatus (raising and lowering)

water transport accessory: rudder

water transport accessory: steering wheel

water transport accessory: winch, anchor

water transport accessory: windlass, double ratchet

water transport component: galley, cooking

water transport component: midship

water transport component: midship: davit

water transport component: midship: davit, radial

water transport component: midship: frame, longitudinal

water transport component: midship: frame bolting, continuous

water transport component: midship: gundeck, lower deck

water transport component: midship: hatch

water transport component: midship: ladder, companion

water transport component: midship: platform

water transport component: midship: scuttle tube, screw plug/light

water transport component: midship: stanchion

water transport component: model, design: sectional model(davit: midship: side)

water transport component: model, design: sectional model(deadwood: keel: stern: stern post)

water transport component: model, design: sectional model(decked: equipped: midship: side: working)

water transport component: model, design: sectional model(half: midship)

water transport component: model, design: sectional model(midship)

water transport component: model, design: sectional model(oar port)

water transport component: model, design: sectional model(propeller: stern: working)

water transport component: model, design: sectional model(stern: stern post)

water transport component: model, exhibition: sectional model(cutaway: decked: half: midship)

water transport component: model, exhibition: sectional model(cutaway: decked: stern)

water transport component: model, instructional: accommodation model(equipped)

water transport component: model, instructional: sectional model(cutaway: half: stern)

water transport component: model, instructional: sectional model(cutaway: longitudinal: midship)

water transport component: model, instructional: sectional model(stern)

water transport component: model, mast and spar(equipped: rigged: sails set: working)

water transport component: model design: sectional model(equipped: half: midship: companion ladder)

water transport component: oar port: scuttle hole tube (plan for plugging in iron-plated wood-built ships)

water transport component: quadrant, steering

water transport component: stern

water transport component: stern: deadwood

water transport component: stern: keel (keelson)

water transport component: stern: square

water transport component: stern: stern post

water transport component: stern: stern post (sternson)

water transport component: topsail, self reefing

weights & measures t&e: clinometer((For measuring angle of heel) combined roll recorder)

weights & measures t&e: ruler

Windlass model

woodworking t&e: saw, keyhole(shipwrights)

woodworking t&e: square, bevel(shipwrights)

Work table

Writing desk

Writing slope

written communication t&e: writing slope

Materials

bone

brass

coating: enamel

coating: lacquer

coating: silver

coating: stain

coating: varnish

copper

cork

cotton

enamel

glass

inorganic: glass

ivory

lead

lead paint

leather

metal

metal: brass

metal: brass ?

metal: brass [handles]

metal: brass [hinges & lock]

metal: bronze

metal: bronze-gilt

metal: bronze-gilt ?

metal: copper

metal: gold

metal: gunmetal

metal: iron

metal: lead

metal: silver

metal: steel

metal: tin

organic: bone

organic: canvas

organic: cork [tops]

organic: cotton

organic: hemp

organic: ivory

organic: ivory [drawer knobs]

organic: leather

organic: leather [lid lining]

organic: paper

organic: rope

organic: silk

organic: sponge

organic: velvet

organic: wood-gilt

organic: wood: mahogany

organic: wood: mahogany, ?

organic: wool

paint

paper

plastic

silver

silvered

steel

synthetic: celluloid

synthetic: glass

synthetic: glass [phials]

textile

varnish

velvet

wood

wood: ash

wood: box

wood: boxwood

wood: boxwood inlay

wood: cedar

wood: ebony inlay

wood: elm

wood: fruit

wood: lime

wood: mahogany

wood: mahogany ?

wood: mahogany veneer

wood: mahogany [box]

wood: maple

wood: oak

wood: pine

wood: plywood

wood: satinwood

wood: walnut

Display Location

Display - Atlantic Gallery

Display - Maritime London Gallery

Display - Nelson, Navy, Nation Gallery

Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Display - ROG

Not on display

Creator

A. Johannsen & Co

Adams

Adams, George

Arnold, John Roger

B. Wright & Co

Berge, Matthew

Brockbank, Atkins & Moore

Brockbank Atkins & Moore

Broderip & Wilkinson

Captain Edye

Carlo, Giovanni Battista de

Cary

Chevalier

Cole

Cole, Benjamin

Cox, W. C.

Dent, Edward John

Dent, J B, & Sons

Dollond & Aitchison

Dring & Fage

Earnshaw, Thomas

Ericksson, K. O. W.

F. Darton & Co Ltd

Felmingham

Fielder, Frederick William

Fletcher of Kirkbymoorside

Gardner, John

Gilbert & Sons

Gould, Edward

Gregory & Wright

Gregory, Henry

Harfield & Company Ltd

Hedridge, Young &

Henry Hughes & Son Limited

Henry Hughes & Son Ltd

Herschel, William

Hipkiss, R

Hohnbaum

Howarth, Charles

Hudson & Son

John Arnold & Son

Josiah Emery

Kelvin & James White Ltd

Kelvin Bottomley & Baird Ltd

Kendall, Larcum

Knott, George

Kurova

Kurova. Retailed by Sewill

Lake, Tho

Lake, Thomas

Lee, George, & Son

Maitland, C.

Marks, A. J.

Nairne, Edward

Northern, William

Northern Goldsmiths Co

Orme Evans & Co Ltd

Perica

Potter, John Dennett

Pritchard, Edward

Ramsden, Jesse

Sewill, Joseph

Shanks, Henry Hardy Priest

Sullivan, Patrick

Sweeny

Unknown

W. & S. Jones

W. F. Stanley & Co Ltd

Walker & Hall Ltd

Watkins & Smith

Wells, John

Williamson, H, Ltd

Wilson Son & Walter

Wright, Gabriel

Yeomans, Samuel

Places

Birmingham

Bormla

Bungay

City of London

City of Westminster

Cork

Coventry, Warwickshire, England

Devonport

Dundee

England

Glasgow

Greenwich

Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK

Halifax, West Yorkshire, England

Hanover, Germany

Kingston-Upon-Hull

Liverpool

London

Newcastle upon Tyne

Paris

Portsmouth

Russia

Sheffield

Strand

Sunderland

Unknown

Watford

Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England

Woolwich Dockyard

Events

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClure, 1850-1854

Death of Nelson, 1805

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798

Greenwich Annual Regatta

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

Royal Victoria & Albert Docks Regatta

World War I, 1914-1918

World War I: Zeebrugge Raid, 1918

Vessels

Agincourt (1865)

Alberta (1863)

Artois (1794)

Bellerophon (1786)

Bellerophon (1865)

Bounty (purchased 1787)

Bristol (1861)

Britannia (1893)

Caledonia (1808)

Camperdown (1885)

Caroline (1914)

Condor (1876)

Constituicao 1821

Cutty Sark (1869)

Daffodil (1915)

Erebus (1826)

Galatea (1859)

Hastings (HMS)

Investigator (1848)

Mauretania (1907)

Monarch (1868)

Niobe (1866)

Phoenix 1751

Royal William (1719)

San Josef (captured 1797)

Sans Pareil 1887 (HMS)

Sturgeon 1894

Temeraire (1798)

Thunderer (1872)

Trafalgar (1887)

Victoria (1833)

Victoria 1887 (HMS)

Victoria and Albert (1899)

Victory (1765)

Warrior (1860)

Exhibition

Guiding Lights

Nelson, Navy, Nation

Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames

Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude

Time and Longitude

People

Barrow, A.

Blake

Bligh, William

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Broad, George Alexander

Captain Saunders

City of London

City of Manchester

Commander Fayner

Cook, James

Cooper, Ernest R

Cunningham, Andrew Browne

Cunningham, Henry D P

Dawe, W. H.

Durrant, Francis

Elliot, E

Graves, Thomas North

Griffiths, John

Hamilton, Emma

Hardy, Pamela

Hardy, Thomas Masterman

Harfield & Company Ltd

Harvey, Eliab

Herschel, John Frederick William

HM Admiralty

Hood, Samuel

Jolliffe

Learmonth, Frederick Charles

Leiningen, Ernest Leopold Victor Charles Auguste Joseph Emich

Lewis Smith, Gertrude Mfl

Maskelyne, Nevil

Maudslay, Sons & Field

McClure, Robert John Le Mesurier

Mercer, Vaudrey

Montagu, George

Moore, Alexander

Moorsom, W. R. C.

Moriarty, Henry Augustus

Mr Robinson

Napier, Henry Edward

Nelson, Catherine

Nelson, Edmund

Nelson, Horatia

Nelson, Horatio

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company

Perrin, Richard (designer)

Prince, William

Queen Victoria

Rodger, William

Royal Collection Trust

Royal United Service Institution

Schifter, Andreas

Science Museum Group

Shanks, Henry Hardy Priest

Smith, Frank Lewis

South Kensington Museum

Sweetings, F.

Tizard, Thomas Henry

Tucker, Joseph

Watts, Philip

William James Herschel

Willis, John 'Jock'

Wootton, Charlesfl

Century

unknown

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ZAA0221; Deck watch, made by Northern Goldsmiths, closed box

2042 (Deck watch)

2012 (Deck Watch)

Fitzroy Type, improved (Mercury barometer)

Fitzroy Syphon Barometer (Cistern barometer)

96545 (Deck watch)

Stick barometer

French Prisoner of War Model - port broadside

Warship (1800); French; Third rate; 74 guns (Full hull model; Block model; Scenic model)

HMS Victoria (circa 1833); Warship; 24 gun sloop (Full hull model; Rigged model)

Octant

Thermometer

Octant

Octant with Artificial Horizon

1370 (Marine chronometer)

Bare Needle Type (Surveying compass)

1519 (Marine chronometer)

129 (Deck Watch)

412 (Pocket chronometer)

Cistern barometer

K2 (Marine timekeeper)

Thermometer

Stick barometer

Standard thermometer

Thermometer

Cistern barometer

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