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Astronomical and navigational instruments
Astronomical and navigational instruments
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Astrolabes and quadrants
Celestial navigation
Charting instruments
Compasses
Course, speed and distance indicators
Electronic navigation
Globes and globe gores
Meteorological instruments
Optical equipment
Sundials
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armament t&e, artillery: gun, smooth-bore shell
armament t&e, artillery: model, cannon
baton, dockyard officer's
Box
Box Base
Box lid
Bust
Circular mirror
Clinometer
container: box
Cross-staff
Diptych dial
Dirk
Dividing model
drafting t&e: drawing instrument set
drafting t&e: pantograph
drafting t&e: rule, parallel
Drawing instrument set
Easel
Equinoctial dial
Full hull model
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Dividing model
Full hull model; Rigged model; Plank-on-frame
furniture: easel
furniture: wardrobe
Georgian, Full hull model
Gun model
Hanger
Hour-glass
Lid
Mace
Marine chronometer
Model cannon
Octant
optical t&e: mirror, circular
Ordnance model
Ordnance model; Gun model
original art: bust
original art: ornament
original art: plaque, portrait
original art: statuette
Ornament
Pantograph
Parallel rule
Plank-on-frame
Portrait plaque
Prisoner of war work, Full hull model
regulative & protective t&e: baton, dockyard officer's
Rigged model
rubber, seam
Seam rubber
Sextant
shipbuilding t&e: rubber, sailmaker's
Spyglass telescope
Statuette
surveying & navigational t&e: clinometer
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, surveying
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
surveying & navigational t&e: octant(with artificial horizon)
surveying & navigational t&e: octant, surveyor's ?
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: theodolite
Surveying compass
Surveyor's Octant
Sword
Theodolite
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(2 day)
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(8 day)
timekeeping t&e: dial
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, string gnomon
timekeeping t&e: hour-glass(30 minute)
timekeeping t&e: hour-glass(60 minute)
Wardrobe
Watch stand
water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 2 decker (French)
water transport: fighting vessel: 72 gun ship (French)
water transport: fighting vessel: 100 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battlecruiser (HMS)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged)
water transport: model, vessel: full hull model(decked: equipped)
water transport: training vessel (HMS)
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bone
brass
brass-gilt
card
coating: gilt
copper wire
damascened steel
ebony
ebony (CITES)
ebony (probably)
ebony/ivory
ebony ?
ebony?
fruitwood
gilt
gilt brass
glass
horn
inorganic: glass
ivory
ivory (CITES)
ivory?
laminate
leather
metal
metal-gilt
metal: brass
metal: steel
metal wire
mica
mother of pearl
oak
organic: ebony
organic: ivory
organic: wood: ebony
organic: wood: ebony, ?
organic: wood: oak
paint
paper
possibly eggshell
Ray skin
sand
silver
stain
steel
string
Turtle shell, ivory, ebony
varnish
walnut
wax
wood
wood: boxwood inlay
wood: ebony
wood: ebony inlay
wood: mahogany
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Display - Atlantic Gallery
Display - QH
Display - Voyagers
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A., S.
Adams, George
Alexander, Alexander
Banks
Barrett, Robert Montague
Bassnett, James
Bianchetti, Isidore
Bradford, Edward Eden
Bradford, George
Cail, Septimus Anthony
Captain Cook Birthplace Museum
Cary
Cary, William
Cole, Humfrey
Cook
Coombes
Davis, Gabriel
De La Rue, Elias
Dixey, Charles Wastell
Dollond & Aitchison
Dring & Fage
E. & E. Emanuel
Edgeworth, Henry
Elliott Bros
Fairey
Fairey, Joseph
George Philip & Son Ltd
Gilbert & Sons
Gilkerson and Co
Goater, Robert
Harling, W H, Ltd
Harris, William
Hennessy, Bernard Rudkin
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Holm, P
Hube
Hughes, James
Hughes, Joseph
J. W. Norie & Wilson
Jones & Co
Jones, Thomas
Kley, Jacobus
Leverton, John
Lilley & Son
Martin, Joshua Lover
Mooy, H.
Negretti & Zambra
Norie & Co., J.W.
Owens, Owen
Palmer, G. R.
Parnell, William
Poole, James
Potter, John Dennett
Prosser, John
Ramsden, Jesse
Schulen & Boby
Sewill, Joseph
Smith, Egerton
Spencer & Co
Spencer Browning & Rust
Sugden, John
Thomas Ripley & Son
Troughton
Tsar Alexander III of Russia
Unknown
Urings, John
W. F. Stanley & Co Ltd
Whitbread, G.
Whitbread, George
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Brest, France
Bristol
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Exeter
France
Germany (for an English company)
Great Yarmouth
Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK
Ipswich
Leeds
Liverpool
London
Marseilles
Netherlands
Newcastle upon Tyne
Portsea
Rotterdam
Swansea, England
Unknown
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Arctic Exploration: Dr John Rae, 1853-1854
Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
World War I, 1914-1918
World War I: Battle of Jutland, 1916
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Vessels
Britannia (1860)
Bucentaure (1803)
Camel (1782)
H.M.S. Quebec active 1805
Lion (1910)
Navy Board model
Neptune (HMS)
Pylades 1884 (HMS)
Royal William (1719)
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Nelson, Navy, Nation
Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea
Time and Longitude
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Board of Trade
Brigstocke, Thomas Robert
Brock, Honorary George
Cambell, James
Dixon, Robert
Dundas, Honourable G.H.
Ekborg, Karl
Fremantle, Thomas Francis
French Navy
Goy & Co
Greenwich Hospital
Griffin
Hardy, Thomas Masterman
Heather, G
Henderson, James
HM Admiralty
Holloway, G R
Holm, Pieter
Kings The Printers
Magendie, Jean-Jacques
Merchant Service
Naval Cadet
Nelson, Horatio
Petty Officer Morley
Player, W. H.
Powell, A.
Queen Mary, Consort of King George V
Royal Navy
Spinney, J. David
Stopford, Robert
Strutt, Honourable Arthur Charles
Taylor, Janet
Williams, Joseph Battison (Borough Surveyo
Wyatt, P J
Young, Earnest A.
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