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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

Telescopes

Communications and signalling

Machinery and fittings

Relics

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Franklin relics

North America

Optical equipment

Ship models

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Cargo vessels

Dockyards, buildings, and topography

Exploration and research vessels

Fishing and hunting vessels

Lifeboats and lifesaving vessels

Passenger vessels

Powered warships

Racing and pleasure craft

Royal yachts and ceremonial craft

Sailing warships

Service vessels

Small craft

Type

Accommodation model

advertising medium: card, trade

Anchor light

Artificial Glass Horizon

Artificial Mercurial Horizon

Astronomical reckoner

astronomical t&e: camera lucida

astronomical t&e: level, spirit

astronomical t&e: prism

astronomical t&e: telescope (28ins)

Azimuth Circle

barrel

barrel, water

Baseboard

Block model

Bottle, fragment

Bottle [fragment]

Bow model

Bow model; Sectional model

Builder's, Block model

Builder's, Full hull model

Builder's, Mirror backed model

Builder's full hull model

building: lighthouse, pile

building: model, exhibition(equipped)

Camera lucida

Camera lucida box

Candle hand lamp

Candle lantern

Cassion model

Chinese flower

Circular mirror

Cistern barometer

commemorative artifact: monument

Compass bowl cover

component, telescope

Component model

data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: reckoner, astronomical

Design, Sectional model

Dial

Dip circle

Dip circle component

Distance meter

Diving bell model

documentary artifact: model

documentary artifact: model, diving bell

documentary artifact: model, mast

documentary artifact: model, monument

documentary artifact: newspaper

documentary artifact: photonegative

documentary artifact: phototransparency

Dry card compass

electrical & magnetic t&e: dip circle component

electrical & magnetic t&e: magnetometer

Engine model

Equipment model

Equipment model; Mast model

Equipment model; Sectional model

Flashing lamp

float, submarine net

floating light

food service t&e: barrel(costrel)

food service t&e: barrel, water(costrel)

food service t&e: bottle, wine

food service t&e: glass, wine(part)

food service t&e: rations: bottle(part)

food service t&e: rations: bottle, wine

food service t&e: rations: bottle, wine(base)

food service t&e: rations: bottle, wine(neck)

food service t&e: tumbler

French Prisoner of War Model, Full hull model

Full hull model

Full hull model,

Full hull model, rigged.

Full hull model,Rigged model

Full hull model; Block model; Rigged model

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Accommodation model

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model

Full hull model; Rigged model

Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set

Full hull model; Rigged model; Spritsail sailing barge; Plank-on-frame

Full hull modelRigged Model

Full hull shipbuilder’s exhibition model

Gauge, microamperes

gauge, pressure

Glass

Glass, Medicine

Glass prism

Half-block model

Half-block model; Mirror-backed model

Half block model

Half block model; Mirror-backed model

Heeling Error Instrument

Heliograph

Hour-glass

Hydrometer

inclinometer

indicator, stability

Ink bottle

Instructional, Sectional model

lamp, bulkhead oil

lamp, red

lamp, signalling

lantern

lantern, bulkhead

lantern, naval emergency

Lens

Lens, astronomical

lens, astronomical

light, catadioptric

lighting device: lamp, bulkhead oil

lighting device: lamp, candle hand

lighting device: lantern

lighting device: lantern, bulkhead

lighting device: lantern, candle

lighting device: light, catadioptric(optic with clock mechanism, 2nd order)

Liquid compass

Magnetometer

Magnifying glass

Masthead lamp

Masthead light

Mast model

measuring machine, photographic plate

mechanical t&e: caisson, sliding

mechanical t&e: model, sliding caisson

medical & psychological t&e: glass, medicine(fragment)

Mercurial artificial horizon

Mercury barometer

meteorological accessory: telescope component: lens

meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury

meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, cistern(marine)

meteorological t&e: barometer, storm glass(storm, weather or camphor glass)

meteorological t&e: barometer, sympiesometer(Thermometer (sympiesometer))

meteorological t&e: barometer, thermoscope(Thermoscope or water barometer)

meteorological t&e: recorder, sunshine

meteorological t&e: thermometer

meteorological t&e: thermometer, sea(sea thermometer for Met observations)

meteorological t&e: thermostat

Microscope

Midship model

Miniature model

Mirror-backed model

Mirror backed model

Model

model

Model monument

Model monument glass dome

Newspaper

optical t&e: glass, magnifying

optical t&e: lens, astronomical

optical t&e: mirror, circular

original art: ornament: boat, Chinese flower

other structure: dock, double

Overhead compass

Paperweight

personal gear: goggles, snow

Photonegative

Photopositive

Phototransparency

picture

Picture on glass

Plank-on-frame

Plank-on-frameRigged Model

porthole

Prism

Prisoner of war work, Full hull model

Rangefinder

Reflecting Circle

Reflecting half-circle

relic, ship: glass, molten

Repeating circle

Rigged model

Rigged Model

Rigged modelRigged Model

Sailor's work, Waterline model

Sailor Made Picture Model

Sails furled

Sails set

Scenic model

Sculpture

Sectional model

Sectional model; Component model

Sectional model; Midship model

Sectional model; Stern model; Waterline model

Sectional model; Waterline model; Stern model

Sextant

Ship equipment model

Ship equipment modelMast model

Ship model

Signalling lamp

slides, lantern

Sliding caisson model

Snow goggles

Sounding tube

Spirit level

spirit level

Spirit levels

Spritsail sailing barge

Starboard light

Stern model

Storm glass barometer

Structural model

Structural model; Sectional model; Cassion model

Sunshine recorder

surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon

surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon, mercurial

surveying & navigational t&e: circle, azimuth

surveying & navigational t&e: circle, reflecting

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry card

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, overhead

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, surveying

surveying & navigational t&e: cover, compass bowl

surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment (57 lantern slides)

surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: tube, sounding(set of 12)

surveying & navigational t&e: heeling error instrument

surveying & navigational t&e: lamp, arc: lamp, xenon ?

surveying & navigational t&e: meter, distance

surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: hydrometer

surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: hydrometer(in wooden case)

surveying & navigational t&e: oceanographic instrument: thermometer

surveying & navigational t&e: rangefinder(set of 4 hand held station keeping instruments.)

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant

surveying & navigational t&e: verge glass

Surveying compass

Sympiesometer barometer

Telegraph dial

Theodolite

Thermometer

thermometer, sea

Thermoscope barometer

Thermostat

timekeeping t&e: hour-glass(14 second)

Trade card

Tumbler

Verge Glass

visual communication t&e: heliograph

visual communication t&e: lamp, flashing

visual communication t&e: lamp, masthead

visual communication t&e: lamp, red

visual communication t&e: lamp, signalling

visual communication t&e: lamp, signalling(paraffin)

visual communication t&e: light, anchor

visual communication t&e: light, floating

visual communication t&e: light, starboard

visual communication t&e: slides, lantern(57 slides of early echo-sounding equipment)

Waterline model

Waterline model; Rigged model; Miniature model

Waterline model; Rigged model; Sails furled

Waterline model; Rigged model; Sails furled; Scenic model

Waterline model; Rigged model; Sails set

Waterline model; Rigged model; Scenic model; Miniature model

water transport

water transport: cargo/passenger vessel

water transport: cargo vessel

water transport: cargo vessel: boat, flower (Chinese)

water transport: cargo vessel: bulk carrier, vegetable oils

water transport: cargo vessel: hopper, self discharging (self propelling)

water transport: cargo vessel: merchantman, armed

water transport: cargo vessel: petroleum carrier

water transport: cargo vessel: tanker, oil

water transport: cargo vessel: timber carrier

water transport: cargo vessel: tramp

water transport: cargo vessel: turret deck ship

water transport: exploration/research vessel (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel

water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 2 decker

water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 5th rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 6th rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 28 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 36 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 38 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 50 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 51 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 91 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: armour-plated

water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: coast defence vessel (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser (German)

water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, light

water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, light (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, light (SMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, scout (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: minelayer, fast (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, fleet minesweeping (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: submarine (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: U Boat

water transport: model, design: full hull model(decked: equipped)

water transport: model, exhibition: block model(cutaway: decked: equipped: half)

water transport: model, exhibition: block model(decked: equipped: rigged)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails set)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: scenic)

water transport: model, exhibition: mirror backed model(decked: equipped: half)

water transport: model, exhibition: mirror backed model(decked: half)

water transport: model, exhibition: mirror backed model(half)

water transport: model, exhibition: waterline model

water transport: model, exhibition: waterline model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails furled)

water transport: model, exhibition: waterline model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails furled: scenic)

water transport: model, exhibition: waterline model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails set: scenic)

water transport: model, exhibition: waterline model(decked: equipped: rigged: scenic)

water transport: model, toy: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails set)

water transport: model, vessel: full hull model(decked: equipped)

water transport: model, vessel: waterline model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails furled)

water transport: motor vessel

water transport: motor vessel: electric turbine, twin screw

water transport: muscle-powered vessel: oar, 6

water transport: passenger/cargo vessel: ferry, cross-channel packet

water transport: passenger vessel

water transport: passenger vessel: liner

water transport: passenger vessel: liner, transatlantic (American)

water transport: passenger vessel: pleasure steamer (Thames)

water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel

water transport: research/exploration vessel: survey vessel

water transport: sailing vessel

water transport: sailing vessel: 3 masted

water transport: sailing vessel: barge, spritsail (Medway)

water transport: sailing vessel: barque, 3 masted

water transport: sailing vessel: barquentine, 4 masted

water transport: sailing vessel: bom (Netherlands)

water transport: sailing vessel: cutter

water transport: sailing vessel: ship, 3 masted

water transport: service vessel: cutter

water transport: service vessel: lightship

water transport: steam vessel

water transport: steam vessel: paddle-wheel

water transport: steam vessel: screw

water transport: steam vessel: screw, single

water transport: steam vessel: turbine

water transport accessory: anchor

water transport accessory: dial, telegraph

water transport accessory: diving equipment: dial

water transport accessory: engine, steam quadruple expansion

water transport accessory: float, submarine net

water transport accessory: gauge, pressure

water transport accessory: heliograph

water transport accessory: inclinometer

water transport accessory: indicator, stability

water transport accessory: light, masthead

water transport accessory: model, engine(cutaway: working)

water transport component: bow, figurhead

water transport component: midship: gundeck

water transport component: midship: gun port (method of securing)

water transport component: midship: scuttle tube, screw plug/light

water transport component: model, design: sectional model(half: midship)

water transport component: model, design: sectional model(midship)

water transport component: model, exhibition: sectional model(bow)

water transport component: model, instructional: sectional model(half: stern)

water transport component: model, instructional: sectional model(stern)

water transport component: model, mast

water transport component: stern: elliptical

water transport component: topmast

water transport equipment: bell, diving

water transport equipment: cockpit

water transport equipment: mast

Wine bottle

Wine bottle, fragment

Wine bottle [fragment]

Wine glass

woodworking t&e: spirit level(shipwrights)

written communication t&e: bottle, ink(unspillable)

written communication t&e: paperweight

Xenon lamp

Materials

brass

carved

coating: gilt

coating: lacquer

coating: paint

coating: stain

coating: varnish

coating: varnish, mirrored glass

composite

cord

inorganic

inorganic: glass

inorganic: glass, gelatin, silver bromide, paper

inorganic: gravel

inorganic: marble

inorganic: mica

inorganic: plastic

inorganic: slate

ivory

laminated

lead

leather

liquid

magnet

Mahogany (CITES)

mercury

metal

metal: alloy

metal: brass

metal:brass

metal: brass plate

metal: bronze

metal: chromium

metal: copper

metal: gold

metal: gunmetal

metal: iron

metal: lead

metal: mercury

metal: sheet iron

metal: silver

metal: stainless steel

metal: steel

metal: tin

metal: unknown

organic

organic: bone

organic: bristle

organic: canvas

organic: cardboard

organic: cotton

organic: fabric

organic: hair

organic: hemp

organic: leather

organic: oil

organic: paper

organic: rubber

organic: satin

organic: sawdust

organic: silk

organic: textile

organic: tortoiseshell

organic: velvet

paint

paper

plaster

plastic

plated

silver

steel

synthetic

synthetic: elastic

synthetic: nylon

synthetic: plastic

synthetic: vinyl

wood

wood (mahogany)

wood (teak)

wood: ebony

wood: fruit

wood: fruitwood

wood: mahogany

wood: oak

wood: pine

wood [frame]

Display Location

Display - Forgotten Fighters

Display - Maritime London Gallery

Display - Ocean Court

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Display - ROG

Display - Sea Things Gallery

Display - Voyagers

Display - West Wing Stairwell

Not on display

Creator

Adams, George

Allen, Thomas

Andersson, Viktor

Argi

Bamberg, Carl

Barbier

Blohm & Voss

Bordier-Marcet, Isaac

Borger, Ivor Jensen

Bulpitt & Sons

Burnell, J

Cambridge Instrument Co. Ltd.

Cammell Laird & Co Ltd

Cary

Charles Connell and Company

Chatterton, J.

Crommelin, Andrew

Dallmeyer

Davidson, Charles

Dent, Edward John

Dobbie McInnes Ltd

Dollond & Aitchison

Dover, John

Electro Methods Ltd

Eli Griffiths & Sons

Elliott Bros

Ever Ready Co. (Great Britain) Ltd

Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd

Fitterer, H.

Foley, John Henry

Garrard, William

Gilbert & Sons

Henry Barrow & Co

Hilmer Bocks Sohn

Holmes Lights Co

Hudson & Son

J. S. Starnes & Sons

James Dove & Co

Jansen

Janssen, J

John Samuel White and Co. Ltd

Junior, Christopher Hayes

Keen, R. J.

Kelvin & Hughes Ltd

Kelvin & James White Ltd

Kitchen, R.

Leventon, Rosie

Luttig, C

Magellan, Jean Hyacinthe de

Marks, A. J.

Mazda

Meteorological Office

Noble & Company

Norris, Herbert

Petterson-Nansen

Plath, C.

Ponthus, P

Pook, M

Pool, Arthur J

R. & H. Green & Silley Weir Ltd

Ramsden, Jesse

Ratcliff, Joseph, & Sons

Robb Caledon Shipbuilders Limited

Robinson, Thomas Charles

Siemens Brothers and Co Ltd, London

Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd

Steger, Jr

Stevenson, D. A.

Sullivan, Patrick

Sunderland Modelmaking Co Ltd

Telford Grier & MacKay & Co Ltd

Tessavolo

Troughton & Simms

Unknown

Vickers-Armstrong Limited

Victor Andersson, Victor

W. F. Stanley & Co Ltd

W. Nunn & Co

W. Ottway & Co. Ltd

W. T. George & Co Ltd

Watts Fincham & Co

Whitbread, George

White, James

Willsteed, S.

Wilson, Charles

Yarrow & Company Limited

Zeiss, Carl

Places

Barrow-in-Furness

Berlin

Birkenhead

Birmingham

Chelsea

Copenhagen

Cowes

Dundee, Grampian, Scotland

Ealing

England

Foglo, Aland Islands

Germany

Glasgow

Govan

Greenwich

Hamburg

Kiel

Littlehampton

Liverpool

London

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Netherlands

Padua, Italy

Paris

Royal Albert Dock

Sunderland

United Kingdom

Unknown

Events

American War of Independence: Battle of Doggerbank, 1781

Antarctic Exploration: Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876

Collision between HMS Gladiator and US liner St Paul, 1908

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

Transit of Venus, 1874

World War I, 1914-1918

World War II, 1939-1945

Vessels

90 1937

91 1937

92 1937

Abdiel (1940)

Alert (1856)

Amphitrite (1816)

Arethusa (1913)

Assistance (1835)

Bamenda Palm (1955)

Benalder (1949)

Caledonia (1862)

Caroline (1914)

City of Perth (1949)

Clyde (1934)

Columba 1878

Constance (1846)

Cumberland (1926)

De Vrouw Hendriena (1836)

Diamond 1848

Discovery 1902

Dresden (1907)

Eagle (1898)

Emden (1908)

Emerald (1856)

Eurydice (1843)

Falaise 1946

Favell 1895

Foresight (1904)

Forward (1904)

Foudroyant [HMS]

Gladiator (1896)

Glatton (1871)

Greenwich (1943)

Horomya 1956

Inconstant (1836)

Javelin (1938)

King George V (1939)

Lady Southborough 1923

London (1927)

Londonderry (1958)

Marlborough (1855)

Miltiades (1903)

Miranda (1879)

Monarch of Bermuda (1931)

Motoketch 1910

Mozart

Norman 1854

Paris 1888

Phoebe (1795)

Pomone (1805)

Queen Adelaide 1831

Queen Elizabeth (1913)

Regensburg 1914

San Demetrio 1938

Scotia (1836)

Severn (1934)

Snapdragon (1915)

Sturgeon 1894

Teakwood 1927

Tiger 1849

Trincomalee (1817)

Turret Age 1893

Victory (1765)

Warspite (1913)

Weybridge 1958

Wolverine (1919)

Zingari fl.1855

Exhibition

Guiding Lights

North-West Passage

Traders: The East India Company and Asia

Voyagers

People

Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd

Bradshaw, Percival E

Caird, James

Captain Johnson

Charles Connell and Company

Cochrane, Alexander Forrester Inglis

Crockford, Thomas

Dallmeyer, J. H.

Elliot, E

Evershed, John

Gourlay Bros & Co

Harrison, Paymaster Edward Newell

Henry Hughes & Son Limited

HRH, The Princess Royal

Janssen, Pierre Jules Cesar

John Samuel White and Co. Ltd

Lake, Ron

Leventon, Rosie

Lloyd's Register of Shipping

Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty

Madame Tussaud's

Malin, Stuart

Mr Scamp

Nelson, Horatio

Northbrook, Earl of

Parr, Alfred Arthur Chase

Port of London Authority

Robertson, Charles

Royal Collection Trust

Royal Greenwich Observatory

Royal Thames Yacht Club

Science Museum Group

South Kensington Museum

Tyssen, John

William Fairbairn & Sons

Century

unknown

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Telegraph dial

Candle lantern

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Flashing lamp

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Warship; Cargo vessel; Passenger/cargo vessel; Passenger vessel(1913-1943) (Waterline model; Rigged model; Miniature model)

Wine bottle (Wine bottle)

lantern

Glass bottle (Wine bottle)

Cargo Vessel(1895) Balque Farlc - port three quarter bow raised

Favell (1895); Cargo vessel; Barque (Waterline model; Rigged model; Sails set)

Signalling lamp

Heliograph

Signalling lamp

Roof artificial horizon (Artificial Mercurial Horizon)

Mozart(1904); Cargo vessel; Barquentine (Waterline model; Rigged model; Sails furled)

Dogger's Bank's Triumf (Picture on glass)

Rangefinder

Overhead compass

Distance meter

Verge Glass

Lisifishes 90,91,92 1937 - Starboard Broadside

90 (1937); Service vessel; Lightship (Full hull model; Rigged model)

Zingara (1855); Passenger/cargo vessel (Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set)

HMS Tiger (1849); Warship; Frigate; Paddle (Full hull model)

Lady Southborough (Builder's, Full hull model)

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