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Inside the megaship: on board one of the world's biggest container ships
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documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, bridges
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, forecastle
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, main
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, platform
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, superstructure
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper(part)
documentary artifact: ship plan: hold
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard
documentary artifact: ship plan: rig, general arrangement
documentary artifact: ship plan: sail
documentary artifact: ship plan: section
documentary artifact: ship plan: shell expansion
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technical drawing
water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 98 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, heavy (HMS)
water transport: service vessel: arctic boat
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Director of Naval Construction
Harland & Wolff
Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries Ltd
Harland & Wolff Ltd
HM Admiralty
HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
John Brown & Company Ltd
Ministry of Defence
Pethers, R. P.
R J Turney
Turney, R. J.
William Doxford & Sons
Williams, H.
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Belfast, Belfast City, United Kingdom
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Chatham Dockyard, Chatham, Medway, England, United Kingdom
City of Sunderland
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Devonport Dockyard
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Portsmouth Dockyard
Portsmouth Dockyard, City of Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom
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Arrow (1854)
Assistance (1874)
Barham (1914)
Boyne (1790)
Calypso (1917)
Dorsetshire (1929)
Endurance (1956)
Forth (1938)
Londonderry (1958)
Rhyl (1959)
Walpole (1918)
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HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
John Brown & Company Ltd
Smith, J.T.
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A duck canvas 12 person tent (Technical drawing)
61/2 ft satellite sledge (Technical drawing)
4 wheeled handcart (Technical drawing)
Cooking apparatus with kettle holding 6 pints (Technical drawing)
Tin water bottle and cup (Technical drawing)
British Lady (1951) (Technical drawing)
48 gun ship (17th century?) (Technical drawing)
48 gun ship (17th century?) (Technical drawing)
Endurance (1956) (Technical drawing)
Endurance (1956) (Technical drawing)
Endurance (1956) (Technical drawing)
Endurance (1956) (Technical drawing)
Dorsetshire (1929) (Technical drawing)
Note and amendments to sketches and specification for Ascot class (1915) (Manuscript)
Specification for a model of the fore and main masts of a fully rigged ship for Black Prince (1861), as a harbour training hulk. (Manuscript)
Specification for Asp (1891) tug (Manuscript)
Londonderry (1958) (Technical drawing)
Barham (1914) (Technical drawing)
Barham (1914) (Technical drawing)
Barham (1914) (Technical drawing)
Dorsetshire (1929) (Technical drawing)
Dorsetshire (1929) (Technical drawing)
HMS Dorsetshire (1929) (Technical drawing)
Dorsetshire (1929) (Technical drawing)
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