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aerospace transport: zeppelin
Bearing Plate - Aircraft Compass
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documentary artifact: photonegative, film
documentary artifact: photonegative, safety film
documentary artifact: phototransparency, film
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sheet film negative
surveying & navigational t&e: bearing plate(pelorus)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, magnetic: compass, transmitting Admiralty
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water transport: cargo vessel: fruit ship
water transport: cargo vessel: general cargo vessel
water transport: cargo vessel: general cargo vessel, short sea
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water transport: cargo vessel: refrigerated carrier
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water transport component: interior, vessel: lounge (chair deck)
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Antarctic Exploration: British, Australian, New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 1929-1931
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Katsina Palm 1957
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Kihna 1930
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Nevasa 1956
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Orion (1974)
Orsova (1954)
Otama (1975)
Pandorian 1941
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Platina 1952
Port Victor (1943)
Press On (fl.1955) [LK137]
Queen Elizabeth 2 (1969)
Queensgarth 1959
Rangitoto (1949)
Registan 1947
Respond (1918)
Rionges 1957
Rothesay (1957)
Royal Barge (1939)
Royal Daffodil 1939
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Royston Grange 1959
Rustenburg Castle 1946
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Sheaf Wear (1959)
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Skeldervik (1958)
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Southland (1944)
SR-N1 (1959)
SR-N6 (1965)
Stanwear 1956
Starthaird 1932
Stirling Castle 1936
Stratheden (1937)
Suecia 1929
Sun XXI 1959
Sun XXIII 1961
Sun XXV 1963
Transvaal Castle (1961)
U288 (1943)
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Ventnor (1965)
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Vigilant (1953)
Walrus (1959)
Wave Baron (1946)
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Willem Ruys 1947
Windsor Castle 1960
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Alexander Hall & Co Ltd
Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd
Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd
Blythswood Shipbuilding Co Ltd
Boel, J
Brown, John, & Co (Clydebank) Ltd
Cammell Laird & Co Ltd
Camper and Nicholsons
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De Schelde NV Koninklijke Maatschappij Scheepswerf en Machinefabriek
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Drammen Slip & Verksted
Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd
Fitzjames, James
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Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd
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Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co
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Nosenko Shipyard
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Passengership Chusan (1950) at anchor in port (Sheet film negative)
On board the British passenger cruise ship Britannic (1930) in the North Channel approaching the North Basin at Buenos Aires, Argentina (Sheet film negative)
A starboard side view of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner and cruise ship Chusan (1950) moored in Naples harbour, Italy. (Sheet film negative)
A slightly distant starboard side view, taken from well abaft the beam, of the Shaw, Savill & Albion Company passenger liner Southern Cross (1955) at anchor in an unknown Spanish location. (Sheet film negative)
A starboard bow view of the tramp cargo steamer Blue Jacket (1883) on the rocks below Longships Lighthouse. (Sheet film negative)
A starboard view of 'Gripsholm' (1957) at Nordkapp, Noway, during the midsummer season. (Sheet film negative)
The coast at Chapman's Peak, Cape Province, South Africa, looking south to Slangkop. (Sheet film negative)
A group of passengers with lifejackets aboard 'Kungsholm' (1966), undergoing life boat drill. (Sheet film negative)
A port side view of the Canadian Pacific Steamships cruise ship Empress of Scotland (1930) at anchor in an unknown location. (sheet film negative)
The Cunard Line passenger cruise ship at anchor in the Humber River at Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada (Sheet film negative)
An aerial view of the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas and the Jardim Botanico at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Sheet film negative)
A starboard quarter view of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner and cruise ship Chusan (1950) at anchor in an unknown French Mediterranean coast location. (Sheet film negative)
A slightly distant starboard side view, taken from well abaft the beam, of the Shaw, Savill & Albion Company passenger liner Southern Cross (1955) at anchor in an unknown Spanish location. (Sheet film negative)
A view from the bridge of 'Gripsholm' (1957) or 'Kungsholm' (1966) of the Pedro Miguel Lock, Panama Canal. (Sheet film negative)
Camps Bay and the Twelve Apostles, Cape Town, South Africa (Sheet film negative)
A starboard side view of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner and cruise ship Chusan (1950) at anchor in an unknown French Mediterranean coast location. (Sheet film negative)
A view of Istanbul and the Bosphorus. (Sheet film negative)
The outer harbour at Montevideo, Uruguay. (Sheet film negative)
On board the British passenger cruise ship Britannic (1930) in the North Channel leaving the North Basin at Buenos Aires, Argentina (Sheet film negative)
On board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner and cruise ship Chusan (1950) at anchor off Algiers, Algeria. (Sheet film negative)
The headstone of Captain B.A. Warburton-Lee, VC, RN in Ballangen New Cemetery, Ofotfjord, Norway. (Sheet film negative)
A port side view of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner and cruise ship Chusan (1950) under way in an unknown location. (Sheet film negative)
A port quarter side view of the cargo ship Busby (1894) aground on the rocks in Pendeen Cove. (Sheet film negative)
A slightly distant port side view, taken from well abaft the beam, of the Orient Line cruise ship Orion (1935) at anchor off Constantinople, Turkey (Sheet film negative)
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