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'Admiral Keppel For Ever' Plate
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armament t&e, artillery: mortar
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ceremonial artifact: flag, house
ceremonial artifact: monument
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food service t&e: bottle, stirrup spout
food service t&e: bowl
food service t&e: bowl, sugar
food service t&e: carafe
food service t&e: cup, breakfast
food service t&e: cup, coffee
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food service t&e: dish, meat
food service t&e: eggcup
food service t&e: jug
food service t&e: jug, hot water
food service t&e: lid, tureen
food service t&e: mug
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food service t&e: plate, soup
food service t&e: pot
food service t&e: pot, coffee
food service t&e: saucer
food service t&e: teacup
food service t&e: teapot
food service t&e: tureen
food service t&e: tureen, mess
Fragment of a chamber pot
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Hot water dish
hot water dish
household accessory: ashtray
household accessory: jug, toby
household accessory: plaque
household accessory: plaque, wall
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original art: figure
original art: figure group
original art: sculpture: bust
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Tureen with lid and stand
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Vase lid
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water transport: fighting vessel: 100 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship
water transport: passenger vessel: liner, passenger
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blue ink
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cork
earth
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glazed, lead
inorganic: ceramic: earthenware
inorganic: earthenware
ironstone china (earthenware)
ironstone china (earthenware), colour cream and blue.
ironstone china (earthenware), painted white & blue & gold & red.
ironstone china (earthenware), painted white & gold & blue & red.
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A. G. Richardson & Co Ltd
Alfred Meakin Ltd
Allman, Broughton & Co
Arthur J. Wilkinson Ltd
Aynsley, John
Baddeley, Thomas
Barker & Brown
Barry, Charles
Bovey Pottery Co Ltd
Bovey Tracey Pottery Company
Britannia Designs Ltd
Buffalo China
Carter, A. T. S.
Cauldon Ltd
Cauldon Potteries Ltd
Chamberlin, Mason
Collingwood Bros. Ltd
Copeland & Garrett
Davenport
De Vaere (after), John
Dillwyn & Co
Dixon & Co
Dunn Bennett & Co Ltd
E. F. Bodley & Son
Elijah Cotton Ltd
F. Green & Co
Francis Morley & Co
Furnivals Ltd
G. L. Ashworth & Bros Ltd
G.L. Ashworth & Bros Ltd
George Skey & Co
Gien Faïencerie
Gould, Francis Carruthers
Greatbatch, William
Grimwades Ltd
Guyatt, Richard
Hardewicke, E
Harley, Thomas
Hayward, T.
Holkham Studio Pottery
J. Sadler & Sons
James Sadler & Sons
Jefferson, Robert
John Maddock & Sons Ltd
John Phillips & Co
Johnson, John
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd
Keeling & Co Ltd
Kerr & Binns
Kilncraft
Lieutenant Morgan
Matthews, Peter
Mehlem, Franz Ant
Minton Ltd
Mollart, J.
Morris
North Staffordshire Pottery Co Ltd
Payne, G.
Pountney & Co Ltd
Rameldon
Ravilious, Eric
Rhodes & Robinson
Rhodes, David
Richards, Clifford
Ridgways
Royal Doulton
Sadler, John
Sadler and Green
Sandford Pottery
Spode, Josiah
Staffordshire Potteries Ltd
Stephan, Pierre
St George Fine Bone China, England
T. Green & Co Ltd
Thomas Harley
Tooth & Co Ltd
Unknown
Utzschneider and Co
W. Broughton
W. H. Grindley & Co Ltd
W. T. Copeland & Sons Ltd
Walton, John
Watts, Benjamin
Wedgwood & Co Ltd
William Brownfield
Wilson
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Wilson, David
Wood & Caldwell
Wood & Sons Ltd
Wood, Ralph
Worthington, Humble & Holland
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Cambrian Pottery, Swansea, Wales
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Church Gresley, England
Cobridge
Dale Hall Works, Burslem, Staffordshire, England
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Donyatt, Somersett, England (probably)
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Sarreguemines (Moselle), France
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America's Cup, 1899
American War of Independence: Battle of Doggerbank, 1781
American War of Independence: Battle of the Saints, 1782
American War of Independence: Declaration of Independence, 1776
American War of Independence: Siege of Gibraltar, 1779
Antarctic Exploration: British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913
Antarctic Exploration: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904
Arctic Exploration: Franklin's First Overland Expedition, 1819-1822
Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Austin, 1850-1851
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Belcher, 1852-1854
Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876
Arctic Exploration: Parry's first voyage, 1819-1820
Arctic Exploration: Parry's second voyage, 1821-1823
Australian Bicentenary, 1988
Coronation of King George V, 1911
Crimean War, 1854-1856
Exploration: Anson's Voyage, 1740-1744
Falklands War, 1982
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Camperdown, 1797
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798
French Revolutionary Wars: Defence of Acre, 1799
French Revolutionary Wars: Treaty of Amiens, 1802
Investiture of Prince of Wales, 1911
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
Opening of St Lawrence Seaway, 1959
Return of Halley's Comet, 1985-1986
Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, 1977
Silver Jubilee of King George V, 1935
Surrender of The High Seas Fleet, 1918
War of Jenkins' Ear: Capture of Porto Bello, 1739
Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race
World War I, 1914-1918
World War I: Gallipoli campaign, 1915-1916
Wreck of the Forfarshire, 1838
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Alert (1856)
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Amphion (1934)
Ariadne (1971)
Arkansas (1911)
Beehive (1752)
Britannia (1953)
Columbus 1824
De Hoffnung (1762)
De Tre Sodskende fl.1790
Discovery (1873)
Discovery (1901)
Duke of Wellington (1852)
Elizabeth fl.1774
Eliza fl.1865
Emperor 1762
Euryalus (1853)
Flower ca.1792
Forfarshire 1836 [SS]
Ganges (1821)
Great Britain (1843)
Great Eastern (1858)
H.M.S. Ville de Paris (1782)
Hadwen fl. 1760
Hope fl.1823
Howe (1885)
Implacable (1899)
Implacable 1805 (HMS)
Island Home
John Dawson fl.1780
Jullanar 1875
Jupiter fl.1805
Latimer 1885
Liverpool (1837)
London (1840)
Maria & Petronella fl.1779 [Dutch]
Molly fl.1780
Moltke 1910 [SMS]
Nancy fl. 1756
Nelson ? (HMS)
Northumberland (1798)
Oriana (1960)
Osborne (1870)
Polar Star 1759
Precursor 1841
Prosperity fl.1787
Queen Charlotte (1790)
Queen Elizabeth (1913)
Resolute (purchased 1850)
Santissima Trinidad fl.1805 (Spanish navy)
Shamrock (1899)
Skelton Castle (c.1789)
Sultan (1873)
Terra Nova (1884)
Thistle (1887)
Tiger fl.1795 (HMS)
Titanic (1912)
Two Brothers (fl.1761)
Union, ca.1780
Vanguard (1835)
Victory (1765)
Volunteer (1887)
Windsor Castle (1858)
Worcester (HMS)
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Death in the ice: the shocking story of Franklin's final voyage
Nelson, Navy, Nation
North-West Passage
Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames
The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire
Titanic Remembered
Traders: The East India Company and Asia
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A. G. Richardson & Co Ltd
Abercromby, Ralph
Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line
Admiral Boyd
Allman, Broughton & Co
Anderson Anderson & Co
Artis, John
Bannister, T
Barker & Brown
Barry, Charles
Beatty, David
Beckett, Walter Napier Thomason
Bennet, John
Berry, Edward
Blackwall Line
Blake, Susan
Blue Funnel Line
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Bovey Pottery Co Ltd
Bovey Tracey Pottery Company
British Tanker Co. Ltd
Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham
Buffalo China
Carter, A. T. S.
Castle Mail Packets Co Ltd
Cauldon Ltd
Cauldon Potteries Ltd
Chandris Line
Charente Steamship Co Ltd
Collingwood, Cuthbert
Cook, James
Copeland & Garrett
Cornwallis, Charles
Cosens & Co Ltd
Cottle, Thomas
Crawford, John
Cunard Line
Davenport
Devitt and Moore
Dienies, Carl Gustar
Dixon & Co
Duncan, Adam
Dundas, James Whitley Deans
Dundee & Hull Steam Packet Company
Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Co Ltd
Dunn Bennett & Co Ltd
Eddy, Edward Carlyn
Eisenhower, President Dwight David
Elder Dempster Lines
Elijah Cotton Ltd
Eliott, George Augustus
Endt, Jan van der
Fall River Line
Fawssett, A. C.
Frances & Grace Wilkinson
Franklin, Jane
Franklin, John
Frazer, John
Furnivals Ltd
G. L. Ashworth & Bros Ltd
Gadsden, Peter
General Steam Navigation Company
George Skey & Co
Greenwich Hospital
Grimwades Ltd
Guyatt, Richard
Halley, Edmond
Hall Line
Hardy, Thomas Masterman
Harley, Thomas
Harris, James
Hood, Samuel
Howe, Richard
Husband, John
Hyde, John
Jackson, Jfl
Jefferson, Robert
Jervis, John
Joaquim Antunes Ferreira & Co.
John Phillips & Co
Jones, John
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd
Keeling & Co Ltd
Keppel, Augustus
Kilncraft
King Charles I
King George V
King George VI
King William IV
Lidgett, J, & Sons
Lieutenant Morgan
Little, Joseph
Louis Pierre Boitard
Marsh, Thomas
Marshall, Thomas Falcon
Mehlem, Franz Ant
Moss Hutchison Line Ltd
Napier, Charles John
National Maritime Museum
Nelson, Horatio
Nelson, Reverend William
New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd
North Staffordshire Pottery Co Ltd
Orient Steam Navigation Co Ltd
Patey, James
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Port Line Ltd
Pountney & Co Ltd
Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Mary, Consort of King George V
Rameldon
Rawson, Wyatt
Rhodes & Robinson
Richards, Clifford
Ridgways
Rodney, George Brydges
Royal Doulton
Royal Navy
Royal Thames Yacht Club
Royal United Service Institution
Sadler, John
Sir William Crawford Currie, William Crawford
Smith, William Sidney
Taylor, Mary Ann
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company Ltd
Thomas, Petty Officer Albert Edward
Trollope, Henry
Union-Castle Line
VII, King Edward
W. H. Grindley & Co Ltd
W. T. Copeland & Sons Ltd
Wardle, Gwillym Lloyd
Waterford Commercial Steam Navigation Company
Watts, Benjamin
Wedgwood & Co Ltd
White, Walter
White Star Line
Willis, John 'Jock'
Wilson
Windsor, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David
Winter, Jan Willem de
Wood & Caldwell
Wood & Sons Ltd
Wood, Ralph
Worthington, Humble & Holland
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