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Adze head
aerospace transport: aircraft
aerospace transport: zeppelin (German)
agricultural t&e: crook
agricultural t&e: flail
Altar cross
armament accessory: scabbard
armament t&e, body armour: gauntlet
armament t&e, edged weapon: arrow (5 crossed)
armament t&e, edged weapon: halberd
armament t&e, edged weapon: spear
armament t&e, edged weapon: spear (broken)
armament t&e, edged weapon: spearhead
armament t&e, edged weapon: sword
armament t&e, edged weapon: sword (2 crossed)
armament t&e, edged weapon: trident (5 crossed)
Astrolabe
astronomical t&e: astrolabe
Badge
Baseboard
Bellrope
Block model
Boat badge
Buckle
building: battlements, castle
building: castle
building: castle (burning)
building: turret
Button
Candlestick
Candlesticks
Casket
ceremonial artifact: banner
ceremonial artifact: cross, altar
ceremonial artifact: crown, naval
Clock case
Clockwork globe
clothing accessory: buckle
clothing accessory: buckle (3)
clothing accessory: shoe horn
Compass expansion chamber
Compass expansion chamber - aircraft compass
container: casket
Decca Navigator Mk30 Receiver
Decca Navigator Receiver
Decca Navigator Type Mk21 Receiver
Decca receiver
Display case
documentary artifact: badge
documentary artifact: globe, celestial
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, clockwork
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, clockwork
documentary artifact: knot
documentary artifact: knot collection(in case)
documentary artifact: sinnet
documentary artifact: splice
documentary artifact: tackle
Extreme Clipper
fishing & trapping t&e: float, net
fishing & trapping t&e: spear, seal(part) ?
food processing t&e: fork, toasting
food processing t&e: gridiron
food processing t&e: kettle
food service t&e: cup (2 handled)
Founding debris
Full hull model
Full hull model; Baseboard
Full hull model; Block model; Rigged model; Sails set; Baseboard
Full hull model; Rigged model; Display case
Gun tompion
Gun tompion for HMS Enterprise. Official design.
Gun tompion for HMS Queen Elizabeth
Gun tompion for HMS Queen Elizabeth.
Gyrocompass
Gyro compass
Gyrocompass and binnacle
Gyrocompass repeater, steering
Islamic globe
Jackstaff and ensign
Jack wheel
Kettle
Kettle base
Kettle lid
kettle with lid
Knot collection
land transport accessory: horseshoe
land transport accessory: spur (2 linked)
Lid
lighting device: candlestick(pair)
lighting device: lantern
Liquid compass
Liquid compass - aircraft
Liquid compass - aircraft compass
Liquid compass box
Medal
musical t&e: bugle
musical t&e: horn, hunting
Net float
Ornamental compass
other structure: bridge
other structure: bridge, turreted
other structure: portcullis
Palstave
personal gear: box, snuff
personal gear: chain, watch
personal gear: chain, watch ?
personal gear: cutter, tobacco
personal gear: stick, walking
personal symbol: British India, Order of
personal symbol: coat of arms, Belgian
personal symbol: coronet, ducal
personal symbol: crown, ducal
personal symbol: Imperial India, crown of
personal symbol: sceptre
regulative & protective t&e: key
regulative & protective t&e: key (7 linked)
Rigged model
Ring dial
Sails set
Scenic, Waterline model
Scenic model
Screws and washers
Screws and washers - aircraft compass
Ship's badge
Ship's bell
Ship badge
Shoe horn
Snuff box
sound communication t&e: bellrope
Sundial
surveying & navigational t&e: bowl, liquid compass(for projector compass)
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, liquid(bomb sight)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, ornamental
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, repeater: compass, gyro(in pelorus stand)
surveying & navigational t&e: expansion chamber, compass(aircraft compass)
Tampion
timekeeping t&e: case, clock
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, ring
Toasting fork
Tobacco cutter
Tompion
Walking stick
Waterline model
Waterline model; Jackstaff and ensign
Waterline model; Rigged model; Sails set; Scenic model
water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate
water transport: fighting vessel: aircraft carrier
water transport: fighting vessel: aircraft carrier (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: galley, Roman (3-4)
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
water transport: sailing vessel
water transport: ship, 3 masted
water transport accessory: anchor
water transport accessory: anchor, fouled
water transport accessory: badge, boat
water transport accessory: badge, boat ?
water transport accessory: badge, ship's
water transport accessory: bell, ship's
water transport accessory: compass
water transport accessory: repeater, steering
water transport accessory: tampion
water transport accessory: tampion ?
water transport accessory: top, fighting
water transport accessory: wheel, jack
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aluminium
bell metal (a copper alloy normally made up of 23% tin and 77 % copper)
blued-steel
bone
brass
brass?
card
cast
coating: paint
composite construction
copper alloy
copper alloy (probabaly)
copper alloy?
copper plate engraved
cotton fibre
electrical wiring
engraved
felt
gilt
gilt brass
gilt copper alloy
glass
gold
gold?
hand-coloured
hemp fibre
iron
iron alloy
lead soft solder?
leather
liquid
magnet
mahogany
metal
metal: copper alloy
mica
mother of pearl
mother of pearl?
paint
paper
plastic
red stone
rope
rubber cable insulation
shellac
silk
silver
steel
steel?
straw
synthetic: plastic
textile
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Bassett-Lowke Ltd
Berkeman, Sune
Bertola, John
Decca
Dent & Co
France: Army
French Armed forces
Goetz, Karl
Habermel, Erasmus
I. Giles
III, Isaac Habrecht
Janssonius, Johannes
Jew, Albert Edward
Johnson Ltd
Ludolph, W.
Mall Electric
Plath, C.
Pomeroy, Thomas
Scott & Linton
Seyler, Johann Tomas
Smith, Addison
Solkhon, William George
Sperry
Sperry Gyro
Sperry Gyroscope Co Ltd
Unknown
William George Solkhon
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Amsterdam
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Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Collinson, 1850-1855
War of Jenkins' Ear: Attack on Cartagena, 1741
War of Jenkins' Ear: Capture of Porto Bello, 1739
World War I, 1914-1918
World War I: Battle of Jutland, 1916
World War I: Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915
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Acute (1942)
Agincourt (1913)
Alamein (1945)
Alberta (1863)
Alecto (1911)
Amphion (1934)
Amphion (1944)
Anson (1940)
Arbiter (1943)
Armada (1943)
Berkeley Castle (1943)
Berwick (1926)
Carysfort (1914)
Cavendish (1944)
Centurion (1911)
Chakdina (1951)
Chameleon (1944)
Cheerful (1944)
Cheviot (1944)
Chieftain (1945)
Chrysanthemum (1917)
Codrington (1929)
Contest (1944)
Courageous (1916)
Curlew (1917)
Cutty Sark (1869)
Cygnet (1942)
Dahlia (1915)
Dampier (1945)
Danae (1918)
Delhi (1918)
Dublin 1912 (HMS)
Dumbarton Castle (1943)
Dunkirk 1945 (HMS)
Eagle (1918)
Emperor of India (1913)
Enterprise (1919)
Erebus (1826)
Espiegle (1942)
Fierce 1945 (HMS)
Formidable 1939 (HMS)
Forres 1918 (HMS)
Glasgow (1936)
Godetia 1916 (HMS)
Goldfinch 1940 (HMS)
Grimsby 1933 (HMS)
Guardian 1932 (HMS)
H.M.S Wizard (1943)
Havock 1936 (HMS)
HMS Sussex
HMS Warspite
Hotspur (1936)
Hound (1942)
Indomitable (1940)
Iron Duke (1912)
Lagos (1944)
Lancaster Castle (1944)
Leeds Castle (1943)
Lion (1910)
Loch Arkaig (1945)
Loch Fada (1943)
Loch Ruthven (1944)
Lusitania 1906 (SS)
Maenad (1944)
Marmion (1944)
Mars 1944 (HMS)
Marvel (1944)
Moorhen (1901)
Moresby (1918)
Morpeth Castle (1943)
Mounts Bay 1945 (HMS)
Mull of Kintyre 1945 (HMS)
Nepean (1916)
Newark 1918 (HMS)
Osprey (1924)
Otway (1926)
Owen 1945 (HMS)
Prince Charles (Ostend) 1930
Prince Leopold (Ostend) 1930
Queen Elizabeth (1913)
Reggio 1944 (HMS)
Renown (1916)
Rifleman (1943)
Rover 1930 (HMS)
Rowena 1916 (HMS)
Royal George (1756)
Royal Sovereign (1891)
Shackleton (1954)
Silverton (1940)
Sirdar (1918)
Sirdar (1943)
Snipe (1945)
St. Brides Bay (1945)
St. George (1939)
Starfish 1916 (HMS)
Starling (1942)
Strathlairg
Suffolk 1926 (HMS)
Superb 1943 (HMS)
Sylvia (1944)
Telemachus 1917 (HMS)
Temeraire (1907)
Tenacious 1943 (HMS)
Tetrarch 1917 (HMS)
Tiverton (1918)
Triumph (1944)
Tyrian (1942)
Ulysses 1943 (HMS)
Vanessa (1918)
Vanquisher 1917 (HMS)
Venturous 1917 (HMS)
Wanderer (1919)
Wessex 1918 (HMS)
Westminster 1918 (HMS)
Weston 1932 (HMS)
Weymouth 1910 (HMS)
Wigtown Bay (1945)
Wild Goose (1942)
Wild Swan 1919 (HMS)
Wolverine 1919 (HMS)
Wryneck 1918 (HMS)
Wyvern 1919 (HMS)
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Beatty, David
Bond, R H Aed
Brown, Charles
Campbell, John
Commander Lestock
Haddock, Nicholas
I. Giles
Janssonius, Johannes
Kentigern, St
Lambert, J. R.
Ogle, Chaloner
Olavarrieta, Blas de Lezo y
Orford, Robert Walpole: 1st Earl of
Queen Elizabeth I
Seyler, Johann Tomas
South Kensington Museum
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Vernon, Edward
Wellesley, Arthur
Wentworth, Thomas
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Official ship's badge of HMS Tyrian (Ship's badge)
Official ship's badge of HMS Rifleman (Ship's badge)
Official ship's badge of HMS Shackleton (Ship's badge)
Candlesticks
Official ship's badge of HMS Cygnet (Ship's badge)
Kettle lid
Official ship's badge of HMS Loch Fada (Ship's badge)
Official ship's badge of HMS Alamein (Ship's badge)
Buckle from 'Royal George' wreck (Buckle)
Official ship's badge of HMS Mull of Kintyre (Ship's badge)
Badge of the Royal Yacht Alberta. (Badge)
Official ship's badge of HMS Ulysses (Ship's badge)
Official ship's badge of HMS Lagos (Ship's badge)
Official ship's badge of HMS Sylvia (Ship's badge)
Official ship's badge of HMS Superb (Ship's badge)
Badge
Official ship's badge of HMS Wild Goose (Ship's badge)
Official boat badge of HMS Wild Swan (Boat badge)
Official ship's badge of HMS Lancaster Castle (Ship's badge)
Official ship's badge of HMS Loch Ruthven (Ship's badge)
Candlestick
Official boat badge of HMS Alecto (Boat badge)
Bellrope
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