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Arma-Brown Gyro compass
Arma-Brown gyrocompass
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Black container for chemicals
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documentary artifact: ship plan: holes in bottom
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, outboard
drafting t&e: protractor
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water transport: fighting vessel: aircraft carrier, light fleet (HMS)
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Baharistan (1959)
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Benhiant (1943)
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Dimitris (1943)
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Gladstone (1951)
Hector (1903)
Himalaya (1949)
Iberia (1954)
Impala (1968)
Irfon (1971)
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Leo (1948)
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Mataura (1968)
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Muria (1932)
Naples Pilot Launch (Fl. 1959)
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Turkistan (1963)
Viking Marine GRP cabin lifeboat (Fl. 1972)
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Viking Marine GRP open motor launch (1972)
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Captain Cook Bicentenary decorations and banners lining a main road in Sydney, New South Wales. (Colour transparency)
A close view of a world globe with the Indian Ocean area facing the camera. (Colour transparency)
A starboard side view, taken from abaft the beam, of a GRP cabin lifeboat (Fl. 1972) being lifted by an electric sheerlegs in the Mumby Road, Gosport, boatyard of the builder, Viking Marine Ltd. (Colour transparency)
A starboard broadside waterline pen and ink illustration of the P & O crude oil carrier Ardtaraig (1969). (Colour transparency)
On board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Corfu (1931) while discharging cargo in the King George V Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
A man creating an eye in the end of a wire rope in the R. & H. Green & Silley Weir rope section building in the Royal Albert Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
A starboard quarter view of the of the Liberian tanker Largo (1956) and British tanker Norscot (1953) berthed in tandem alongside a quay in the Western Docks at Southampton. (Colour transparency)
A port bow view of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger cruise ship Arcadia (1954) alongside Berths 30-31 on the Itchen Quays, Southampton. (Colour transparency)
Looking across the River Bure to St. Benets Abbey, Norfolk. (Colour transparency)
A starboard broadside view of the British India Steam Navigation Company educational cruise ship Dunera (1937) outboard of the Nevasa (1956) in a port at night. (Colour transparency)
A slightly distant starboard quarter view, taken from wide off the stern, of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner Oriana (1960) anchored at Acapulco (Colour transparency)
A distant port bow view, taken from wide off the bow, of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Himalaya (1949) turning off Tilbury Landing Stage. (Colour transparency)
Tempestuous (Vent Plug)
A slightly distant starboard quarter view, taken from wide off the stern, of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner Oriana (1960) anchored at Acapulco (Colour transparency)
A man creating an eye in the end of a wire rope in the R. & H. Green & Silley Weir rope section building in the Royal Albert Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
A starboard broadside waterline pen and ink illustration of the P & O roll-on/roll-off passenger/vehicle ferry Eagle (1971). (Colour transparency)
On board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Arcadia (1954) during lifeboat drill while under way in the Adriatic. (Colour transparency)
A starboard broadside waterline pen and ink illustration of the P & O ore/bulk/oil carrier Irfon (1971). (Colour transparency)
A starboard bow view of a GRP open motor launch (1972) being moved by a mobile crane in the Mumby Road, Gosport, boatyard of the builder, Viking Marine Ltd.. (Colour transparency)
Bottom hull sections for a ship on the building berth in an unknown shipyard. (Colour transparency)
Lowering cabin lifeboat number 5 on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Arcadia (1954) while at anchor off Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. (Colour transparency)
A man creating an eye in the end of a wire rope in the R. & H. Green & Silley Weir rope section building in the Royal Albert Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
The town of Amalfi, Italy, seen from on board a ship offshore. (Colour transparency)
Arabesque (Black container for chemicals)
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