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armament accessory: carriage, gun (sprocket driven)
armament t&e, artillery: carronade
armament t&e, artillery: gun
armament t&e, artillery: model, gun
Ashtray
Barge
Block
Chair
Chest
Coat of arms
Design, Sectional model
Elm board
Equipment model
Equipment model; Gun model
Figurehead
Flying Twenty Class
furniture, ship's: chest
Gun model
household accessory: ashtray
Hull
Launch, Motor
Motor Launch
National 18 Class
personal gear: chest, sea
personal symbol: coat of arms
Racing Dinghy
Racing Dinghy; National 18 Class
Racing Keelboat
Racing Keelboat; Flying Twenty Class
relic: timber
Royal Barge
Sea chest
Timber
water transport: cargo vessel: merchantman (French) ?
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
water transport: steam vessel: yacht
water transport accessory: block, threefold
water transport accessory: board, elm
water transport accessory: figurehead(bust)
water transport accessory: figurehead(full length)
water transport accessory: figurehead(half length)
water transport accessory: figurehead(head)
water transport accessory: figurehead(three quarter length)
water transport component: midship: gundeck, lower deck
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(decked: equipped: midship: side: working)
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asbestos
Bakelite / Phenol Formaldehyde (PF)
brass
Canadian rock elm
canvas
cedar
clinker
coating: stain
coating: varnish
copper
elm
gun metal
Honduras mahogany
iron
mahogany
metal
metal: iron
organic: canvas
organic: hemp
paint
pine
plastic
rock elm
silver
teak
wood
wood: ash
wood: chestnut
wood: elm
wood: elm ?
wood: lignum vitae
wood: mahogany
wood: oak
wood: pine
wood: wych elm
wood: yew
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Display - All Hands Gallery
Display - Ocean Court
Display - Polar Worlds Gallery
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Anderson, Rigden and Perkins Ltd
Fox, Uffa
John Samuel White and Co. Ltd
Lapthorn & Ratsey
Morgan-Giles, Francis Charles
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Cowes
Teignmouth
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Antarctic Exploration: British, Australian, New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 1929-1931
Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Belcher, 1852-1854
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797
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Bosphorous (1840)
Discovery (1901)
Favourite 1829 (HMS)
Fox (1855)
Indipendenza 1875 (Italian)
Palinurus 1833
Pensive Temptress 1947
Resolute (purchased 1850)
Royal William (1719)
Shush (1925)
Timballo (1939)
Victoria and Albert (1899)
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Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames
The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea
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Evans, Thomas
Jervis, John
King William III
Nelson, Horatio
Parham, Frank
Reid, Charles
Richardson, Percy
Sampson, Commander Thomas Stephen
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Royal William (Design, Sectional model)
A three-quarter-length female figure holds a posy, with a closed fan held across the body in her left hand from an unidentified merchant ship (Figurehead)
HMS Favourite (Figurehead)
Equipment model; Gun model
Elm board tingle for boat repairs (Elm board)
Shush (Hull)
Palinurus (Figurehead)
Male figurehead (Figurehead)
Indipendenza (Figurehead)
Chair
Royal coat of arms of King William III (Coat of arms)
The figurehead of a polar bear from the exploration ship HMS Resolute (1850) (Figurehead)
Pensive Temptress (Hull)
Ashtray
Chest
Sea chest
Elm board
Shush (Motor Launch)
Bosphorus (Figurehead)
Block
Timballo (Racing Dinghy; National 18 Class)
Chair
Timber piece with photograph (Timber)
[Horatio Nelson] (Figurehead)
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