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documentary artifact: ship plan: body
documentary artifact: ship plan: general arrangement
documentary artifact: ship plan: sail
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, aft
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, construction
documentary artifact: ship plan: sheer
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water transport: fighting vessel: battlecruiser (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, 2nd class (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat, composite steam
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Bryant, S.
d'Eyncourt, Eustace Henry William Tennyson
Dangerfield Lithograph
Everett, (Herbert Barnard) John
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Rigaud, Jacques
Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd
United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)
Velde, Willem van de, the Elder
White, W A
Wyllie, William Lionel
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HM Dockyard, Chatham
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HMS 'Canopus' at Port Stanley, firing the opening salvoes of the Battle of the Falkland Islands, 8 December 1914 (Drawing)
Silhouette of an army officer (Drawing)
A yacht race passing the marker boat (Drawing)
HMS Hood (1918) (Technical Drawing)
Unnamed Proposed 260ft 3-masted steam despatch vessel circa 1865 (Technical drawing)
Albacore (1883), Mistletoe (1883) and Watchful (1883) (Technical drawing)
A crowded harbour with Dutch ships, smalschips and other craft (Drawing)
Unnamed 30ft steam cutter (1888) (Technical drawing)
A prospect of Greenwich Hospital from the River (Drawing)
King George V (1939) (technical drawing)
King George V (1939) (technical drawing)
Arethusa (1882) (Technical drawing)
Unnamed 185ft twin masted steam torpedo gunboat (1885) (Technical drawing)
Apollo (1891) (Technical drawing)
Unnamed proposed 260ft 3-masted steam despatch vessel circa 1865 (Technical drawing)
Unnamed mooring lighter (1903) (Technical drawing)
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