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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

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

Ship souvenirs

Toys, games and music

Type

Accommodation model

astronomical t&e: telescope (Herschel's 20ft)

astronomical t&e: telescope (Herschel's 40ft)

astronomical t&e: telescope (USA)

Beer mat

Beer mats

Board game

building: bridge, swing

Card

Card case

Cards, playing

cast: seal cast: Paris, 2nd seal of the city, 1358

ceremonial artifact: flag, house

ceremonial artifact: monument

Cigarette lighter

clothing outerwear: sleeve

coat of arms

collection of beer mats

Collection of Match booklets

collection of match booklets

Component model

Cutaway model

Darts

data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: indicator, navigator's

data processing t&e: computing instrument: computer, tidal

Demonstration model

Design, Sectional model

Diagram

documentary artifact: card, acceptance

documentary artifact: card, memorial

documentary artifact: card, signal code

documentary artifact: card, visiting

documentary artifact: diagram

documentary artifact: manuscript, Herschel telescope

documentary artifact: map

documentary artifact: model

documentary artifact: notice

documentary artifact: photograph

documentary artifact: photographic reproduction

documentary artifact: planetimer

documentary artifact: plaque

documentary artifact: postcard

documentary artifact: stereograph

documentary artifact: ticket, excursion

documentary artifact: ticket, funeral

Drawing

Dried rations

Dry compass

Engine model

Engine model; Sectional model

Equipment model

Excursion ticket

eyelets

figure, human: marine

figure, human: rating

food service t&e: mat, beer

food service t&e: rations: rations, dried(Type K Breakfast unit)

food service t&e: rations: rations, lifeboat emergency

Four matches

Framed

Framed pictures

Full hull exhibition model

Full hull model

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame

Full hull model; Sectional model; Stern model

Funeral ticket

game: card, playing

game: cards, playing

game: darts

game: game, board(Flotilla)

game: game, signal flag

game: puzzle, jigsaw

Gun turret model

Instructional, Picture model

Jigsaw puzzle

Jigsaw puzzle box

Jigsaw puzzle box base

Jigsaw puzzle box lid

Lifeboat emergency rations

Liferaft emergency rations

Lighter, date unknown

lighting device: booklet, match

lighting device: box, match

Liquid compass

Liquid compass Card

Manuscript

Match booklet

Match booklets

Match box

Match box base

Match box cover

Memorial card

Menu card

Merchant Navy Comfort Service Playing cards

Midship model

Miniature model

Model

Navigator's indicator

Notice

original art: drawing

original art: plaque, portrait

personal gear: case, card

personal gear: lighter, cigarette

personal symbol: coat of arms

Photograph

Photographic reproduction

Picture model

Planetimer

Planisphere

Plank-on-frame

Plaque

Playing card

Playing cards

Portrait plaque

Position plotter

Postcard

Professionally made model

Puppet

puppet

Rigged model

Sailor doll

Scenic model

Seal cast

Sectional model

Sectional model; Component model

Sectional model; Cutaway model; Equipment model; Engine model; Picture model; Demonstration model; Working model; Professionally made model

Sectional model; Gun turret model

Semaphore cards

sextant

Sextant with Artificial Horizon

shipbuilding t&e: eyelets(sailmaker's)

Signal code card

Signal flag game

Star finder & identifier

Star identifier

Star plotter

Stereograph

Stern model

surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, dry

surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, liquid

surveying & navigational t&e: plotting instrument: identifier, star

surveying & navigational t&e: plotting instrument: plotter, position(lunar distance)

surveying & navigational t&e: plotting instrument: plotter, star

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant

Telephone list finder

Tidal computer

Top part of a cardboard puppet

toy: doll, sailor

toy: puppet

Visiting card

visual communication t&e: card, semaphore

visual communication t&e: semaphore code

Waterline model

Waterline model; Rigged model; Scenic model; Miniature model

Waterline model; Scenic model

water transport: cargo vessel: tramp

water transport: fighting vessel

water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 3 gun boat (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 116 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: aircraft carrier (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: battleship

water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: corvette

water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, heavy

water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: submarine (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: turret ship

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

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

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

water transport: passenger vessel: cabin, captain's

water transport: passenger vessel: cabin, first class

water transport: passenger vessel: dining saloon, first class

water transport: passenger vessel: dining saloon: second class

water transport: passenger vessel: library, first class

water transport: passenger vessel: liner

water transport: passenger vessel: music room, first class

water transport: passenger vessel: promenade deck, first class

water transport: passenger vessel: promenade deck, second class

water transport: passenger vessel: vestibule, first class

water transport: sailing vessel

water transport: sailing vessel: cutter

water transport: sailing vessel: ship, 3 masted

water transport: service vessel: launch, police (Thames)

water transport: service vessel: lighter, lifting (Thames)

water transport: steam vessel

water transport: steam vessel: paddle-wheel

water transport: steam vessel: paddle-wheel vessel

water transport: steam vessel: screw, steel

water transport: training vessel

water transport component: bow: cabin, boy's

water transport component: bow: cabin, carpenter's

water transport component: bow: cabin, cook's

water transport component: bow: forecastle

water transport component: bow: head

water transport component: bow: lamp room

water transport component: bow: store, bosun's

water transport component: bow: wash room

water transport component: engine, quadruple expansion (longitudinal)

water transport component: engine, side lever (longitudinal)

water transport component: engine, triple expansion (longitudinal)

water transport component: midship: beam, orlop/gundeck (horizontal scarph: ventilated)

water transport component: midship: turret, armour plated (method of supporting)

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

water transport component: model, design: sectional model(decked: stern)

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

water transport component: model, exhibition: accommodation model(bow: cutaway: decked: equipped)

water transport component: model, instructional: picture model(cutaway: engine: longitudinal: working)

water transport component: stern: elliptical

Working model

written communication t&e: list finder, telephone

Materials

coating: gilt

coating: paint

coating: stain

coating: varnish

cotton

engraving

glass

ink

inorganic: glass

inorganic: printing ink

inorganic: textile (cord)

liquid

metal

metal: aluminium

metal: brass

metal: copper

metal: gilt

metal: lead

metal: metal, white

metal: steel

organic

organic: card

organic: cardboard

organic: cotton

organic: flesh

organic: hair

organic: hemp

organic: leather

organic: paper

organic: paper, tissue

organic: silk

organic: sugar

organic: wheat

organic: wool

paint

paper

plaster

plastic

synthetic

synthetic: glass

synthetic: glucose

synthetic: nylon

synthetic: perspex

synthetic: plastic

synthetic: wax

varnish

wax

wood

Display Location

Not on display

Creator

Autotype Co. Ltd

British & Commonwealth Group

Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd

Bryant and May

Chad Valley Co Ltd

Charles Goodall & Son Ltd

Clark, T

Columbia Match Co

Compactas

Cracker Jack Co

De la Rue

Depot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine

Devambez, André Victor Édouard

Eastham, Silas

Egan Co

Einson-Freeman Co

Falcon

Fitterer, H.

Fuller, G J, & Co

G. J. Fuller & Co

Gill, C. S.

Goodall. Charles, & Son Ltd

H. & T. C. Batchelor

Hand

Henry Hughes & Son Limited

Herschel, John Frederick William

Hookey, William

John Lilley & Son Ltd

John Waddington Ltd

Loveless, B J

Marchant, Nathaniel

Marine Instruments Ltd

Paris, Abbé

Peacock & Mansfield

Pingo, Lewis

Reeves & Son

Reynolds, J

Rosebrock, F T

Salleron, Jules

Sams Brothers Ltd.

Siebert, Albert

Tay Chay Weng & Co (Pte) Ltd

Tombs, John

Turner, Charles Edward

Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd

Unknown

Valentine & Sons Ltd

Wallis, John

Wilcox Crittenden & Co

Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards

Wray, David C.

Places

Austria

Bergen

Berkhamsted

Bremerhaven

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Cleveland, USA

Deptford Dockyard

Dundee

England

Glasgow

Greenwich Hospital

Harborne, England

Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, England

Littlehampton

London

Long Island City

Paris

Philadelphia

San Francisco, California, USA

Singapore

Southport, Merseyside, England

United States of America

Unknown

Vauxhall

Washington

West Kensington

Events

Coronation Review At Spithead, 1953

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

World War I, 1914-1918

World War II: Evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940

Vessels

Aquitania (1914)

Arabic (1903)

Aronda 1912 (RMS)

Baghdad (1871)

Ben-My-Chree (1908)

Brightlingsea (1925)

Buenos Aires (1887)

Bywell Castle (1870)

Caronia (1948)

Chusan (1950)

Clyde (1934)

Courageous (1916)

Cymric 1898 (RMS)

Derbyshire (1966)

Devastation (1871)

Dumbarton [RMS]

Empress Queen (SS)

Eurydice (1843)

Javelin (1938)

Kashima [HIJMS]

Khartoum (SS)

Leny 1889

Lightning (1829)

Lion (1910)

London (1927)

Mahrondha III

Mahseer II 1948

Maidari I 1911

Mauretania (1907)

Mona's Queen (TS)

Nasir (SS)

Neuralia 1912 (SS)

Nile (1888)

Orcades (1948)

Orsova (1909)

Pindari 1891

Prima 1922 (SS)

Princess Alice (1865)

Princess Charlotte 1815

Prinz Eugen [German]

Queen (1839)

Queen Elizabeth (1913)

Queen Mary (1936)

Rewa 1906 (HM Transport)

Ruby 1876 (HMS)

Sans Pareil (1887)

Santa Maria (Fl.1492)

Severn (1934)

Sindia 1887

St. Silio (1936)

Talookdar (1885)

Uganda, 1952 [SS]

Walmer Castle 1902 (SS)

Warspite (1913)

Widgeon 1904 (HMS)

Winchester Castle (1930)

Wolverine fl.1798 [HMS]

People

Adcock, Harry

Baddeley, William

Beatty, David

Bibby Line Ltd

Brietzcke, George Purcas

British and Commonwealth Group

British India Steam Navigation Company Limited

Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham

Browne, George Lewis

Castle Line

Coles, Cowper Phipps

Commonwealth and Dominion Line Ltd

Crumby, George Oiller

Cunard Line

Dodwell Castle Line

Franklin, John

Furness Withy & Co Ltd

Hargood, William

Heard, Isaac

Hookey, William

Humphrey Tennant & Co

Imperial Japanese Navy

King Charles III

Leyland Line

Merchant Navy Comforts Service

Monroe Brothers

Mortlock, Lewis

Nelson, Horatia

Nelson, Horatio

Nicholson-Clark, James

Nippon Yusen K K

Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company

Port Line Ltd

Prince Eugene of Savoy

Punch, Mr

Red Star Line

Royal Naval Division

Royal Navy Careers Service.

Russell, Charles James

Saigo, Jugi

Smith, Henry Sutcliffe

South and East African Royal Mail Service

South Kensington Museum

Symonds, William

Thos. & Jno. Brocklebank Ltd

Tomline, George Pretyman

Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd

United States Lines

VII, King Edward

Ward, Maria

Women's Royal Naval Service

Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards

Century

unknown

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Haig beer mat (Beer mat)

Card plaque for the Herschel 20ft telescope (Plaque)

Tidal computer

Liquid compass

Collection of Port Line match booklets (Collection of Match booklets)

Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company, Ltd notice sign (Notice)

Passenger notice board (Notice)

Beer mat

Leyland Line Playing card (Playing card)

Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty and H.M.S. Lion postcard (Postcard)

HM Transport Rewa postcard (Postcard)

Flotilla the Scientific Game of Naval manoeuvres board game (Board game)

Beer mat

Pack of semaphore cards (Semaphore cards)

Isherwood System of Ship Construction notebook & case & Cunard playing card

Cunard Steamship Co Ltd playing card (Playing card)

Type K breakfast ration (Dried rations)

SS Neuralia postcard (Postcard)

Unopened pack of United States Lines playing cards (Playing cards)

Dining saloon on Neuralia postcard (Postcard)

HMS Courageous (1916); Warship; Aircraft carrier (Waterline model; Scenic model)

Bound book of playing cards "the idol hour" Furness Withy and Co. Ltd

Furness Withy and Co Ltd playing cards in leather book (Playing cards)

eyelets

Leyland Line Playing cards with leather case (Playing cards)

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