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adornment: locket
adornment: pendant
armament, ethnographic: bow
armament, ethnographic: dao
armament: plume, helmet
astronomical t&e: telescope component: eyepiece
astronomical t&e: telescope component: eyepiece, micrometer
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Mourning Ring
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water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: submarine (HMS)
water transport: model, exhibition: waterline model(decked: equipped: rigged: scenic)
water transport: steam vessel: yacht
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Bentham, Julia
Bowyer, Robert
British School, 19th century
Brun, Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le
Dun, Nicolas-Francois
Dunn, John
Evans, John
Field, Robert
Fitterer, H.
Gregson
Grimaldi, William
Hamilton, Emma
Hawksley, Rozanne
Hoppner, John
Jaeger
Jean, Paul
Jean, Philippe
Johann Alexander Herschel
John Salter
Lawrence & Co
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Rega, Filipo
S, T
Samuel Pemberton
T., A.
Tussaud's
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Wood, William
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Antarctic Exploration: British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913
Antarctic Exploration: Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1797
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
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Clyde (1934)
Cutty Sark (1869)
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Javelin (1938)
Junon fl.1810
Kestrel 1872 (HMS)
London (1927)
Lord Cranstoun
Queen Elizabeth (1913)
Severn (1934)
Warspite (1913)
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Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames
Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton
Traders: The East India Company and Asia
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Adams, John
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Back, George
Bentham, Julia
Berry, Edward
Berry, Louisa
Bromhead, Lady
Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham
Captain Thomas Young, RM, Thomas
Chalmers, James
Collingwood, Cuthbert
Collingwood, George Newnham
Collingwood, Mary Newnham
Collingwood, Sarah Newnham
Collingwood Family
Cumming, James
Darby, George
Darling, Grace Horsley
Faulknor, Robert
Hamilton, Emma
Hamilton, William
Hammond, Anthony
Hardy, Pamela
Harmood, Harry
Herschel, William
Hillyar, James
Holman, William Henry
Hood, Charlotte Mary
Kerr Robertson Hercus, Jane
Lutwidge, Charles Skeffington
Maria Carolina
McCormick-Goodhart, Leander
McGrath, Terence
Merchant Navy
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Miss Everard
Mortlock, Lewis
Mott, Andrew
Motte, de la
Nelson, Catherine
Nelson, Edmund
Nelson, Horatia
Nelson, Horatio
Nelson, Thomas
Newnham, William
Noyce, James
Orient Line
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Ponting, Herbert George
Poole, Claudius Scruton
Purey-Cust, H.E.
Rivers, William
Royal United Service Institution
Rutter, John Whitfield
Scott, Walter
Sea Dyak Peoples
Seymore, Lt
Shortland, John
Spencer, Samuel
Stephens, Philip
Stevens, John Malcolm
Stockham, John
Trollope, Henry
Ward, James
Ward, Maria
Ward, Philip
Westcott, George Blagdon
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Bracelet
Captain Harry Harmood, 1739 - 1809 (Miniature)
James Cumming, 1738 - 1808, Admiral of the White (Miniature)
Pendant
Captain John Shortland, 1769 - 1810 (Miniature)
Emma, Lady Hamilton, as a Bacchante (Miniature)
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Royal Naval Pipers’ Society uniform: sporran (Sporran)
Mourning ring
Cap badge, Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) (cap badge; cap band)
Cap badge, Orient Steam Navigation Company Limited (cap badge; cap band)
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Cap band
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Mourning Ring
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