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Ship Plans and Technical Records - Admiralty Collections
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documentary artifact: ship plan
documentary artifact: ship plan: anchor
documentary artifact: ship plan: anchor crane
documentary artifact: ship plan: anchor shank
documentary artifact: ship plan: beams
documentary artifact: ship plan: bed places
documentary artifact: ship plan: boat, portable(Halkett's)
documentary artifact: ship plan: bomb bed
documentary artifact: ship plan: bow
documentary artifact: ship plan: bulkhead
documentary artifact: ship plan: cable compressor
documentary artifact: ship plan: chain locker
documentary artifact: ship plan: chain pump
documentary artifact: ship plan: channels
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, bridges
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, forecastle
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, gun
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, main
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, orlop
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, quarter & forecastle
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck fastening
documentary artifact: ship plan: engine
documentary artifact: ship plan: frame
documentary artifact: ship plan: frame at midship
documentary artifact: ship plan: gun
documentary artifact: ship plan: gun(32pdr)
documentary artifact: ship plan: gun, bow
documentary artifact: ship plan: gun, pivot
documentary artifact: ship plan: gunport illuminator
documentary artifact: ship plan: head
documentary artifact: ship plan: hearth
documentary artifact: ship plan: hold
documentary artifact: ship plan: hold(stowage)
documentary artifact: ship plan: inboard works, expansion of
documentary artifact: ship plan: keel
documentary artifact: ship plan: keel, curved
documentary artifact: ship plan: lines
documentary artifact: ship plan: lines & profile
documentary artifact: ship plan: machine, dredging
documentary artifact: ship plan: mast, main
documentary artifact: ship plan: mast support
documentary artifact: ship plan: mortar bed
documentary artifact: ship plan: nipper
documentary artifact: ship plan: outboard works, expansion of
documentary artifact: ship plan: paddle wheel
documentary artifact: ship plan: platform, carronade
documentary artifact: ship plan: porthole
documentary artifact: ship plan: ports
documentary artifact: ship plan: powder room
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard
documentary artifact: ship plan: propeller, screw
documentary artifact: ship plan: pump(Dodgson's)
documentary artifact: ship plan: pump(Truscott's)
documentary artifact: ship plan: roundhouse
documentary artifact: ship plan: sail
documentary artifact: ship plan: screw shaft
documentary artifact: ship plan: scupper
documentary artifact: ship plan: section
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, midship
documentary artifact: ship plan: sheep pen
documentary artifact: ship plan: sheer
documentary artifact: ship plan: sheer & profile
documentary artifact: ship plan: steering apparatus
documentary artifact: ship plan: steering gear
documentary artifact: ship plan: steering wheel
documentary artifact: ship plan: stern
documentary artifact: ship plan: stern, circular
documentary artifact: ship plan: stools
documentary artifact: ship plan: stopper, slip
documentary artifact: ship plan: tiller
documentary artifact: ship plan: yardarm, main topsail
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Thunderer (1831)
water transport: cargo vessel: clipper, tea
water transport: cargo vessel: East Indiaman
water transport: cargo vessel: merchant ship
water transport: exploration/research vessel: exploration vessel
water transport: exploration/research vessel: survey vessel
water transport: exploration/research vessel: survey vessel (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 3 gun boat
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 4th rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 6th rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 10 gun boat
water transport: fighting vessel: 20 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 24 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 26 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 28 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 32 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 46 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 50 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 60 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 64 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 70 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 74 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 76 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 80 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 84 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 90 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 91 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 112 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 120 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: advice boat, schooner
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship, turret (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: brig
water transport: fighting vessel: brig, gun
water transport: fighting vessel: brig, mortar
water transport: fighting vessel: brigantine
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, light (HMCS)
water transport: fighting vessel: cutter
water transport: fighting vessel: flat bottom boat
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: guardship
water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat
water transport: fighting vessel: mortar boat (Spanish)
water transport: fighting vessel: schooner
water transport: fighting vessel: ship of the line
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 12 gun
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 14 gun
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 16 gun
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 18 gun
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, brig
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, flush deck
water transport: service vessel: barge, mud
water transport: service vessel: brig, packet
water transport: service vessel: coastguard boat
water transport: service vessel: cutter, coastguard
water transport: service vessel: dredger, steam
water transport: service vessel: dredger barge, flat bottom
water transport: service vessel: hulk, sheer
water transport: service vessel: launch
water transport: service vessel: lifeboat, cutter (28ft)
water transport: service vessel: light vessel ?
water transport: service vessel: packet
water transport: service vessel: pinnace (28ft)
water transport: service vessel: pinnace (36ft)
water transport: service vessel: receiving ship
water transport: service vessel: tank vessel
water transport: service vessel: transport
water transport: service vessel: water vessel
water transport: steam vessel
water transport: steam vessel: guardship
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Allyear, J.
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Muros 1809
Nautilus 1830
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Nerbudda (1847)
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Nightingale (purchased 1829)
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Orpheus 1773
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Thunderer (1831)
Tyne (1826)
Unicorn (1824)
Unnamed 31ft flat-bottomed boat (fl.1783)
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Warrior (1860)
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Death in the ice: the shocking story of Franklin's final voyage
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Abethell, Richard
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Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport
HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
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Sturdee, Alfred B.
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32 pounder bow gun (Drawing)
Pirate (fl.1848) (Technical drawing)
Hearths for Gunboats at Leith (1797) (Drawing)
42ft Water Vessel (1821) for Trincomalee (Technical drawing)
Curieux (captured 1804) (Technical drawing)
'Persia' (1855) (Drawing)
Dido (1836); Daphne (1838) (Technical drawing)
Eurotas (1829); Horatio (1807) (Drawing)
Cutty Sark (1869) (Technical drawing)
Juno (1844), Creole (1845), Amethyst (1844), Niobe (not built, name transferred), Malacca (as for Niobe) (Technical drawing)
Cable compressor (Drawing)
Sheep pens and Poultry Coops for ships of the line (Drawing)
Diamond (1848), Tribune (cancelled 1848), Niobe (1849) (Technical drawing)
Chain lockers for 74 gun Third Rates (Technical drawing)
Bed places for officers and other cabins (circa 1835) (Technical drawing)
Bed places for officers and other cabins (circa 1835) (Technical drawing)
Proposed iron bulkheads for the holds of ships (Technical drawing)
Bermuda (1848) (Technical drawing)
'Cumberland' (1842) (Technical drawing)
Vernon (1832) (Technical drawing)
Vernon (1832) (Technical drawing)
Vernon (1832) (Technical drawing)
Forte (1858) (Technical drawing)
Thunderer (1831) (Technical drawing)
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