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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

Charts and maps

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De Gomme collection

Des Barres collection

Duckworth collection

Duff collection

Ericsson collection

Globes and globe gores

Goodsall collection

Green Blackwall collection - charts

Henry Newton Stevens Atlantic Neptune collection

Hopton Hall collection

Lockyer collection

Loose maps and charts: general collection

Moriarty collection

Northey collection

Penrose collection

Pirelli collection

Portolans and loose charts on vellum

Printed atlases

STC collection

Stokes collection

Westlake collection

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

Anchor model

armament accessory: carriage, field gun

armament accessory: carriage, gun

armament accessory: limber

armament accessory: mounting, gun

armament t&e, artillery: gun, breech-loading (naval)

armament t&e, artillery: gun, field

armament t&e, artillery: gun, forward pivot

armament t&e, artillery: model, field gun(equipped: working)

armament t&e, artillery: model, gun(working)

Armillary sphere

Astrolabe

Astrological compass

astronomical t&e: astrolabe(Persian)

astronomical t&e: sphere, armillary

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic(triple achromatic)

Attachment

Binnacle

Box

Box base

Box lid

Builder's, Block model

Builder's, Full hull model

Clockwork globe

clothing, outerwear: uniform: full dress uniform, Flag Officer's

clothing, outerwear: uniform: trousers, full dress

commemorative artifact: box

commemorative artifact: box, snuff

commemorative artifact: box, snuff ?

commemorative artifact: screen, hand

commemorative artifact: tray

compass

Day or night telescope

Diptych dial

documentary artifact: globe, celestial

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, clockwork

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, hand

Equipment model

Equipment model; Anchor model

Equipment model; Nipper model

Equipment modelAnchor model

Equipment modelNipper model

eyepiece Cap

Eyepiece cover

Field gun model

food service t&e: rations: canister, tea

Full dress trousers

Full hull model

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame

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

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

Full hull model; Rigged model

Geomancer's compass

Geomantic compass

Georgian, Full hull model

Gun carriage model

Gun model

Half hull model

Half hull model; Plank-on-frame

Hand globe

Hand screen

household accessory: box

iceworking t&e: knife, snow

Instructional, Sectional model

Islamic quadrant

Lamp

Lever

Lever/handle

lighting device: box, match

Mariner's compass

Match box

Match box base

Match box lid

Miniature globe case lid

Navigational globe

Navy Board, Full hull model

Nipper model

Non-achromatic telescope

Objective lens cover

Officer of the Watch telescope

optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)

optical t&e: telescope, walking stick(non-achromatic)

Ordnance model

Ordnance model; Field gun model

Ordnance model; Gun model

Ordnance modelGun model

personal gear: box, snuff

personal symbol: flag

Photograph Album

Photograph album

Plank-on-frame

pointer, station

Portable telescope

Presentation Small-Sword

Prisoner of war work, Full hull model

Rigged model

Sails set

Sectional model

Sectional model; Gun model

Snow knife

Snuff box

Snuff box base

Snuff box lid

Station pointer

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, asiatic: compass, astrological

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, asiatic: compass, astrological(geomancer's)

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, asiatic: compass, geomancer's

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, asiatic: compass, pocket

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, geomancer's

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's(in binnacle)

Sword

Table globe

Tachi

Tea canister

Telescope

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, diptych

Top of Eyepiece cap

Tray

Wakizashi

Walking stick telescope

Watch

Waterproof plug and socket

water transport: cargo vessel: barge (Thames)

water transport: cargo vessel: West Indiaman

water transport: fighting vessel

water transport: fighting vessel: 4th rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 60 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: battlecruiser (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, 1st class protected (HMS)

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

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop (French)

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 18 gun (French)

water transport: model, design: sectional model(decked: equipped: working)

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

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

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, instructional: sectional model(half: longitudinal)

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

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

water transport: sailing vessel: barge, spritsail

water transport: sailing vessel: brig (French)

water transport: sailing vessel: yacht, royal

water transport: service vessel: yacht

water transport accessory: anchor

water transport accessory: anchor, close stowing

water transport accessory: anchor, double

water transport accessory: anchor, frame stock

water transport accessory: anchor, mooring makeshift

water transport accessory: anchor, stock

water transport accessory: model, anchor

water transport accessory: model, nipper

water transport accessory: nipper, chain

water transport component: midship: deck

Materials

anodized brass

bamboo

black lacquer

black lacquered brass, with electrum(?) scale

blued-steel

blued steel

blueprint

board

bone

brass

canvas

card

cardboard

cellulose nitrate lacquer

chrome

coating: lacquer

coating: lacquer ?

coating: varnish

compressed cardboard

compressed printed cardboard

copper

copper plate engraved

cord

cotton

cotton tape

enamel

fruitwood

gilt

gilt copper

gilt white metal

glass

gold

gold alloy

gold alloy (shakudo)

gold paint

hand-coloured

hardwood

ink

inorganic: glass

ivory

lacquer

lacquered and guilded paperboard

lacquered boxwood

lacquered brass

lacquered metal

lacquered paper

lacquered ray-skin

lacquering

lead

lead paint (?)

leather

magnet

metal

metal-gilt, ?

metal-gilt ?

metal: brass

metal: copper

metal: gilt

metal: gold

metal: iron

metal: silver

metal: steel

mother of pearl

nickel

organic: bone

organic: cotton

organic: paper

organic: papier mache

organic: silk

organic: sponge

organic: tortoiseshell ?

organic: wood, ?

paint

paper

papier mache

papier maché

plaster

plastic

printed paper

ray-skin

rosewood

rubber

shark-skin

silk

silk cord

silk tape

silver

stain

steel

string

textile

tin

tortoiseshell

varnish

white metal

wood

wood: lignum vitae

wood: mahogany

wood ?

wool

Display Location

Display - Nelson, Navy, Nation Gallery

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Display - ROG

Display - Sea Things Gallery

Display - Traders Gallery

Not on display

Creator

Abbott, Lemuel Francis

Angxiao, He

Cary

Cullum

Delamarche, Charles-Francois

Delisle, Guillaume

Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd

Fortin, Jean

George Philip & Son Ltd

Hammersley

Hua-Chi, Chou

Hynam, J.

Ji, Zhou Hua

Johann Georg Klinger

Jones

Kelvin & James White Ltd

Landon & Co

Longland, William

Luheng, Wu

Magnac, H. de

Messier, Charles

Morisset, James

Naotane, Ishihara

Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd

Ramsden, Jesse

Richard

S. Smith & Son

Shi, Cheng Ju San Cai Dou Nan

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

Talbot, W. J.

Thomas Jones & Son

Unknown

Wangchang, Cao

Wang Yangxi

Wilde, James Stuart

Wu, Luheng

Wyon, William

Xiu-Shui, Fang

Places

Bizen Province

Charing Cross

China

Chiswick

France

Glasgow

Govan

HMS Terrible,

HMS Vernon, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

Japan

London

Manchester

Nuremberg

Paris

Portsmouth

possibly Persia

Seki, Japan

Switzerland

Turkey

Unknown

Wu County, Jiangsu Province, China

Wu County, Juangsu Province, China

Xihu Street, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China

Xiuning

Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China

Events

Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Hall, 1864-1869

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859

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

Crimean War: Baltic Campaign, 1854-1855

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798

French Revolutionary Wars: Egyptian Campaign, 1801

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

Second Boer War: Battle of Ladysmith, 1899

Vessels

Amphitrite (1816)

Bolton (1709)

Defence (1763)

Foresight (1904)

Forward (1904)

Fox (1855)

Joan D'Arc fl.1806

Leda (1800)

Queen Mary (1912)

Sylph (1842)

Terrible (1895)

Verona (1877)

Victoria and Albert (1899)

Victory (1765)

Exhibition

Death in the ice: the shocking story of Franklin's final voyage

Nelson, Navy, Nation

Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames

Traders: The East India Company and Asia

People

Alexander Chaumont

Blake

Briscoe, James

British Forces

Browne, George Lewis

Cook, James

Corfe, Bishop

Cullum

Dampier, William

Davies, John

Fisher, John Arbuthnot

George Philip & Son Ltd

Hall, Charles Francis

Hamilton, Emma

Hawkins, R. F.

Huish, Henry (RN)

Hutton, F

Japanese Army

Limpus, Arthur Henry

Macbride, John

Magellan, Ferdinand

Maire, Jacob Le

Martin

Morisset, James

Mountbatten, Louis

Naotane, Ishihara

National Maritime Museum

Nelson, Horatio

Nuyts, Peter

Oguri, K.

Pedro Fernandez de Quiros

Pelsaert, Francois

Petrus Plancius, Petrus

Plumbridge, James Hanway

Porters

Rodger, William

Royal Greenwich Observatory

Royal Navy

Schouten, Willem Cornelissen

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

South Kensington Museum

Trotman

Walton, E.

Wilfred Bayliss: Amalgamated Chains & Anchors Ltd (Bayliss Collection)

Witt, Gerrit Frederiksz de

Wrey, William Bourchier Sherard

Century

unknown

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Terrestrial table globe (Table globe)

HMS foreward and foresight 1904- Starboard broadside

HMS Forward (1904); HMS Foresight (1904); Warship; Scout (Full hull model; Rigged model)

Joan D’Arc (1800); Warship; Brig; 14 gun (Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model)

Ordnance model; Gun model

Attachment

Celestial table globe (Table globe)

Terrestrial clockwork globe (Clockwork globe)

Day or night telescope

Presentation Small-Sword

Ordnance model; Field gun model

Eyepiece cover

Objective lens cover

Hand screen

Geomantic compass

Ordnance model; Gun model

Portable telescope

Islamic quadrant

Porter's anchor (Equipment model; Anchor model)

Equipment model; Anchor model

Snuff box

Box

Equipment model; Anchor model

Snow knife used on Nares' Arctic expedition, 1875-1876 (Snow knife)

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