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original art: picture, poker work
other structure: harbour
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water transport: cargo vessel: brig
water transport: cargo vessel: East Indiaman
water transport: cargo vessel: merchantman (Netherlands)
water transport: cargo vessel: packet
water transport: cargo vessel: slaver
water transport: cargo vessel: snow
water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 2 decker
water transport: fighting vessel: 2 decker (Netherlands)
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water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 4th rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 5th rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 6th rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 48 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 54 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 56 gun ship (Netherlands)
water transport: fighting vessel: 58-72 gun ship (Netherlands)
water transport: fighting vessel: armoured ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (Germany)
water transport: fighting vessel: brigantine (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: canoe, war
water transport: fighting vessel: carrack (Portugal)
water transport: fighting vessel: corvette (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, torpedo (HMS)
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water transport: service vessel: gig, ship's
water transport: service vessel: slaver
water transport: ship, model
water transport: steam vessel, paddle
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water transport: unknown function: boat
water transport: unknown function: boat (Venice)
water transport: unknown function: brig
water transport: unknown function: brigantine
water transport: unknown function: cutter
water transport: unknown function: galjoot (Netherlands)
water transport: unknown function: kaag (Netherlands)
water transport: unknown function: ship
water transport: unknown function: ship (Algerine)
water transport: unknown function: ship (Dutch)
water transport: unknown function: ship (English)
water transport: unknown function: ship (Middelburg)
water transport: unknown function: ship (Netherlands)
water transport: unknown function: ship (Netherlnds)
water transport: unknown function: ship (Spain)
water transport: unknown function: ship (UK)
water transport: unknown function: ship (Zeeland)
water transport: unknown function: sloop (HMS)
water transport: unknown function: wijdschip (Netherlands)
water transport: yacht
water transport: yacht (Netherlands)
water transport: yacht (UK)
water transport: yacht, bezan (Netherlands)
water transport: yacht, boeier (Netherlands)
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water transport: yacht, royal (ketch rigged: HMY)
water transport: yacht, royal (smack: HMY)
water transport: yawl, Scarborough
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Adrien van de Veen
Alfred Gomersal Vickers
Anderson, William
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Anthonissen, Hendrick van
Anthonisz, Aert
Backhuysen, Ludolf
Barwick, E.
Battem, Gerrit
Beaufort, E. P.
Beechey, William
Beerstraaten, Johannes
Beerstraten, Jan Abrahamsz
Bellevois, Jacob Adriaensz
Bettes, John
Beyeren, Abraham Hendricksz van
Bles, Herri met den
Bloot, Pieter de
Bol, Cornelis
Boons, T. or F.
Borcht, Hendrick van der
Boudin, Eugène Louis
Bouwmeester, Cornelis
British School
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British School, 17th century
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Brooking, Charles
Brueghel, Jan
Bunce, William Gedney
Butler, Gaspar
Buttersworth, Thomas
Cappelle, Jan van de
Circle of Jan Brueghel, the Elder
Clements, H.
Cleveley, Robert
Clibborn, William Barclay
Cobb, Charles David
Condy, Nicolas Matthew
Cooke, Edward William
Coopse, Pieter
Cornelisz Claessen, Cornelisz
Croos, Jan Jacobsz van der
Dare, Joseph Stafford
de Critz, John
Denizot, Nicholas
Diest, Adriaen van
Diest, Willem Hermansz van
Drummond, Samuel
Dubbels, Hendrik Jacobsz
Edward Hoyer
Eertvelt, Andries van
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Everett, (Herbert Barnard) John
Fleetwood, C. W.
Flessiers, attributed to Tobias
Francis Pocock
Francken, Frans
Fraser, John
Galea, Luigi Maria
Garneray, Ambrose-Louis
Goderis, Hans
Good, Thomas Sword
Gower, George
Goyen, Jan van
Gruyter, Jacob de
Heard, Joseph
Hilliard, Nicholas
Hodges, William
Hodgson, John Evan
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Holbein, Hans
Holland, James
Hood, John
Horne, R
Huggins, William John
Ibbetson, Julius Caesar
Jean-Baptiste Bonnecroy
J Jordan
Jordan, J.
Ketel, Cornelis
Lascelles
Lawson, Cecil Constant Philip
Lawson, Cecil CP
Lawson, Cecil Gordon
Lawson, J. L.
Loeff, Jacob Gerritsz
Luny, Thomas
Man, L. De
Mann, W. J.
Marshall, Joseph
Masters, Robert
McFarlane, Duncan
Minderhout, Hendrik van
Monamy, Peter
Monogrammist C.W.
Monogrammist D.W.
Monogrammist P.K.
Moore, John
Mooy, Cornelis Pietersz
Mulier, Pieter
Mytens, Daniel
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Nibbs, Richard Henry
Nooms, Reinier
Patinir, circle of Joachim
Peake, Robert
Peeters, Bonaventura
Peeters, Jan
Pocock, Isaac
Porcellis, Jan
Porcellis, Julius
Powell, Charles Martin
Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany
Rebecca Bolton
Reid, Andrew
Rietschoof, Jan Claesz
Russell, John
Sailmaker, Isaac
Salm, Adriaen van
Sands
Schetky, John Christian
Scrots, William
S D Skillett
Settle, William Frederick
Sillemans, Experiens
Smirke, Robert
Smith
Soest, Pieter Cornelisz van
Solvyns, Franz Balthazar
Sorrell, Alan Ernest
Spencer, Richard Ball
Staets, Hendrick
Stooter, Cornelisz Leonardsz
Storck, Abraham
Stretes, Guillim
Stubbs, George
studio of Hans Holbein
Studio of Ludolf Backhuysen
Swaine, Francis
Swaine, Monamy
the Younger, after Willem van de Velde,
Thomas, Robert Strickland
T or F Boon
Turner, Daniel
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van der Croos, Pieter
van Salm, Roelof
Velde, follower of Willem Van de
Velde, Pieter van den
Velde, Willem van de, the Elder
Velde, Willem van de, the Younger
Verbeeck, Cornelisz
Verschuier, Lieve Pietersz
Verwer, Abraham de
Vlieger, Simon de
Vogelaer, Pieter
Vonk, G.
Vries, Jacob Feytsz de
Vries, Joachim de
Vroom, Hendrick Cornelisz
Wadsworth, Edward Alexander
Wallis, Alfred
Walters, Samuel
Westall, Richard
Wilkie, David
Willaerts, Abraham
Willaerts, Adam
Witmont, Heerman
Wonnacott, John
Wou, Claes
Wyatt, Henry
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American War of Independence: Battle of the Saints, 1782
Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1780
Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish Armada, 1588
Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Phipps, 1773
Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648
Eighty Years' War: Battle of Dunkirk, 1639
Eighty Years' War: Battle of the Downs, 1639
Exploration: Cook's First Voyage, 1768
First Anglo-Dutch War, 1652-1654
First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Dungeness, 1652
First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Scheveningen, 1653
First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard, 1653
First crossing of the Atlantic by steam, 1819
Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
Nine Years' War: Battle of Barfleur, 1692
Second Anglo-Dutch War: Attack on the Medway, 1667
Second Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Lowestoft, 1665
Second Anglo-Dutch War; 1665-1667
Second Anglo–Dutch War: Four Days Fight, 1666
Third Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Texel, 1673
War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714
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Augusta (1771)
Badere Zaffer (captured 1808)
Barfleur (1768)
Boladora (1829)
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Britannia (1820)
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Calypso (1826)
Catarina (1649)
Charles Galley (1676)
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Cherub fl.1832
Cruiser (1852)
De Geertrit Pieternelle (1717)
De Maas (1713)
Duncan (1811)
Duyfhen
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Eendracht (1653)
Enterprize (1774) [Alternative spelling: Enterprise]
Fearless (1886)
Formidable (1777)
Formidable (fl.1834)
Fortuin (fl.1653)
Gloucester (1654)
H.M.S. Prince Royal
Herzogin Cecilie 1902
Hollandia
Juffrouw Maria (recorded 1674)
Lewes Castle (1839)
Mauritius
Memnon [HEIC]
Minotaur (1863)
Monarch (1868)
Nile (1839)
Niña
Oosterwijk (1653)
Opal 1875
Peerless 1859
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Pickle (1827)
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Pique (1834)
Portsmouth 1674
Prince Royal (1610)
Prins Wilhelm III 1687
Providence 1872
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Schielan (1717)
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Shannon (1855)
Southwold Belle (1900)
St. John Baptist (1668)
Thetis (1788)
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Woolwich 1675
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Time and Longitude
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Kersley, E
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Leicester Galleries
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Millar family
Ministry of Defence Art Collection
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Mounsey, William
Mulier, Pieter
Nelson, Horatio
Netherlands: Navy
Nicholson, Ben
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co Ltd
Parks, J F
Parr, Marjorie
Porter, G W
Prince Henry Frederick of Wales
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Mary I
Royal Navy
Russell, Gilbert
Russia: Navy
Seymour, Thomas
St Croix, Jasper de
Sutcliffe-Smith Collection
Tate
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James I, 1566-1625 (Painting)
English Ships and the Spanish Armada, August 1588 (Painting)
HMS Conqueror (Drawing)
Mary Elizabeth (Drawing)
Queen Mary I (1516-1558) (Painting)
A Castle with a Ship Sailing Nearby (Painting)
Portuguese Carracks off a Rocky Coast (Painting)
The Brigantine 'Warren' in a Gale (Painting)
Fishing boats in a breeze (Painting)
A 17th century Whaling Scene (Painting)
Nelson (Picture)
HMS Seahorse capturing the Badiri-i-Zaffer, 6 July 1808 (Painting)
Venetian boats reflected in a calm sea (Painting)
HMS Opal (Painting)
Royal Visit to the Fleet at Spithead, 26 June 1794 (Painting)
HMS Minotaur (Painting)
Paddle steamer Sirius (Painting)
The steamship Athenian (Painting)
A three-decker off a headland by moonlight (Painting)
Captain Sir Thomas Fellowes (1778-1853) (Painting)
Launch of the brig 'Lewes Castle' (Painting)
A royal barge off Portsmouth (Painting)
The brig Brazil Packet (Painting)
George Monck (1608-1670), 1st Duke of Albemarle (Painting)
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