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ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2026 shortlist
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Arma-Brown Gyro compass
Arma-Brown gyrocompass
Bailer
Black container for chemicals
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Caesium atomic clock
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Cutaway model
documentary artifact: ship plan: holes in bottom
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, outboard
drafting t&e: protractor
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surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry card: compass, pocket
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water transport: fighting vessel: aircraft carrier, light fleet (HMS)
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Bromley-Martin, Angela Felicity
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HM Admiralty
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Admiralty Floating Dock No.5 (1912)
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Baharistan (1959)
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Dimitris (1943)
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Gazana (1972)
Gladstone (1951)
Hector (1903)
Himalaya (1949)
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Impala (1968)
Irfon (1971)
Kazimah (1959)
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Leo (1948)
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Mataura (1968)
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Moreton Bay (1969)
Muria (1932)
Naples Pilot Launch (Fl. 1959)
Nevasa (1956)
Nigaristan (1970)
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Ruahine (1951)
Salmara (1956)
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Solen (1961)
Somali (1948)
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Speedwell (1956)
St. Eval (1930)
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Stirling Castle (1936)
Strathaird (1932)
Strathanna (1966)
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Suecia (1929)
Sun II (1965)
Tasmania Star (1950)
Taupo (1966)
Thuleland (1955)
Turkistan (1963)
Viking Marine GRP cabin lifeboat (Fl. 1972)
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Viking Marine GRP open motor launch (1972)
Wasa (1627)
Wild Auk (1971)
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A close view of the bow and badge of an unidentified Shell Company tanker. (Colour transparency)
Shipping in the docks at Falmouth, Cornwall. (Colour transparency)
A modern steel staircase with glass panel sides in an unidentified office building. (Colour transparency)
A general view of the outer harbour, looking towards the Eastern Breakwater, at Falmouth, Cornwall. (Colour transparency)
A Bakker 400 ton capacity machine inside an R & H Green & Silley Weir workshop, presumably in the Royal Albert Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
Two connectors for electric cables with armour protection, fitted to a ribbed iron structure. (Colour transparency)
A general scene inside an R & H Green & Silley Weir fitters workshop in the Royal Albert Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
Two men on a suspended wooden platform cleaning the flag logo on the funnel of a Federal Steam Navigation Company cargo liner in Falmouth Docks. (Colour transparency)
The R. & H. Green & Silley Weir Ltd tank cleaning jetty at Purfleet, Essex. (Colour transparency)
A table top diorama model of Falmouth docks and harbour, Cornwall. (Colour transparency)
The interior of the R & H Green & Silley Weir heavy machine or fitters shop in the Royal Albert Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
The interior of an R & H Green & Silley Weir machine or fitters shop in the Royal Albert Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
The R. & H. Green & Silley Weir Ltd tank cleaning jetty at Purfleet, Essex. (Colour transparency)
A Victor oily water separator in a workshop of Silley, Cox & Co Ltd. in Falmouth docks, Cornwall. (Colour transparency)
Shipping in the docks at Falmouth, Cornwall. (Colour transparency)
A port side view, taken from ahead of the beam, of the passenger liner Queen of Bermuda (1933) undergoing refit at the Harland & Wolff shipyard, Belfast. (Colour transparency)
The Ben Line cargo liner Benhiant (1943) under tow in the Royal Albert Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
The P. & O. - Orient Lines office building at Aden, South Yemen. (Colour transparency)
Shipping in the Royal Albert Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
A port side view, taken from ahead of the beam, of the Port Line cargo liner Port Townsville (1951) alongside Berth 21 or 23 in the Royal Albert Dock, London. (Colour transparency)
A general view of the 14 storey, glass fronted, P & O head office building at 122 Leadenhall Street, London EC3 (Colour transparency)
The shop front of the City Passenger Office of the Union S.S. Coy. of N.Z. Ltd in Auckland, New Zealand. (Colour transparency)
A slightly distant starboard bow view of the Orient Line passenger/cargo liner Orcades (1948) alongside Berth 30-31 in Tilbury Docks, Essex. (Colour transparency)
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