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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

Coins and medals

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Coins

Commemorative medals

Orders and medals

Type

Amulet

armament accessory: sight, telescope

Astrolabe

Astrolabe7

Astronomical compendium

astronomical t&e: astrolabe

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic

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

Augsburg dial

Azimuth compass

Badge

badge, German: War Award: Blockade Runners War Badge

Butterfield dial

Clockwork globe

Compass card

Compass dial

Compass frame

Counter

Day telescope

documentary artifact: globe, celestial

documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, clockwork

Dry card compass

Equinoctial dial

Inclining dial

Life saving award

Lifesaving award

Lifesaving award: Royal Humane Society Medal 1774-1869

Medal

medal, American: lifesaving award: Massachusetts Humane Society, Officers Medal 1854?

medal, American: lifesaving award: Massachusetts Humane Society 1791

medal, British: Lifesaving Award: Royal Humane Society Medal 1774-1869

medal, French: lifesaving award: Bronze Medal

Naval telescope

Night telescope

Officer of the Watch telescope

optical t&e: eyepiece, telescope

optical t&e: telescope

optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)

personal symbol: crest (rampant lion)

Prize medal

Qibla indicator

Qibla indicator lid

Rangefinder

Rangefinder telescope

rangefinder telescope

Scaphe dial

String-gnomon dial

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

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth

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

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, surveying

surveying & navigational t&e: rangefinder(stadiometer)

surveying & navigational t&e: telescope(officer of the watch)

surveying & navigational t&e: theodolite

Surveying compass

Table globe

Telescope

Telescope eyepiece

Theodolite

timekeeping t&e: dial(compass)

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

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

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

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, mechanical equinoctial

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

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, string gnomon

timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial

timekeeping t&e: nocturnal

Token

Token - halfpenny

visual communication t&e: code, signal

War badge

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

water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)

Materials

brass

bronze, silvered

copper

copper plate engraved

copper silvered alloy

enamel

engraved

gilt-brass

gilt-copper

gilt brass

gilt copper

glass

hand-coloured

ink

ivory

lead

lead (?)

lead presumed

leather

liquid

mahogany

metal: iron, part silvered

mica

paper

papier mache

plaster

rope

silk

silver

silvered

silvered-brass

silvered brass

silvered brass?

silvered bronze

silvered copper

silvered iron

silvered lead

steel

string

thread

turquoise stone

varnish

wood

wood: mahogany

Display Location

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Display - Sea Things Gallery

Display - Tudor and Stuart Seafarers Gallery

Display - Voyagers

Not on display

Creator

Adams, George

al-Yazdi, Muhammad Mahdi

Armand, Jacques Etienne

Bellagamba, Rossi

Blakey, G. H.

Borrel, Valentin Maurice

Britten, Robert Henry

Cary

Cattin, Jean Baptiste

Coombes

Cordova Maza, Guillermo

Cox, William Charles

Dollond & Aitchison

Elder, Thomas Wyon the

Gieves & Hawkes Ltd

Goetz, Karl

Heath, W.

Heming & Co

Henri Dubois, H

Juan Gottuzzo & Ca

Kempson, Peter

Knittl, Franz Antoni

Langlois, Claude

Lusitania Souvenir Medal Committee

Mills, Robert

N., M.H.

Nourry, Jean

Outhier, Abbe Reginald

Petrus Plancius, Petrus

Pistrucci, Benedetto

Pritchard, Andrew

Ross, Andrew

Rossi, A. F.

Rossi, Constante

Ross Ltd

Schollay, C.

Senex, John

Unknown

Van Emden, A

Voigtlander & Sohn

W & B

W. & S. Jones

Worthington & Allan

Wright, C C

Wyon, Benjamin

Wyon, J.

Wyon, Peter

Yun, Kan

Yun, Kang

Places

Amsterdam

Arabia

Arabian Peninsula

Argentina

Brazil

Brunswick, Germany

Chile

City of London

Devonport

England

France

Germany

Iran

Italy

Japan

Korea

Linz, Austria

London

London, England

Netherlands

Paris

Peru

Rome

Switzerland

Unknown

Events

Anglo-Spanish War: Attacks on Buenos Aires, 1806

Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish Armada, 1588

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

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880

Brazilian Naval Revolts, 1893-1894

Cordillera of the Andes Boundary Case, 1902

Discovery of Brazil, 1500

Exploration: Columbus' First Voyage, 1492-1493

First Franco-Moroccan War: Capture of Mogador, 1844

Franco-Dutch War: Battle of Palermo, 1676

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794

International Congress of Rescue, 1878

Opening of the port of St Nicholas, 1904

Revolt of the Chilean Fleet, 1810-1820

Second Banda Oriental campaign: Second Siege of Montevideo, 1812

Second Boer War, 1889-1902

Statue of Courbet memorial installed, 1890

War of the Pacific: Battle of Iquique, 1879

War of the Pacific: Bolivia and Peru, Chile's campaign against, 1879-1883

World War I, 1914-1918

World War I: Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915

World War II, 1939-1945

Vessels

Belgrano (1899)

Bombay (1828)

Camperdown (1885)

Esmeralda fl.1879 (Chilean)

Huascar fl.1879 (Peruvian)

Leonardo da Vinci fl.1914 (Italian)

Lusitania 1906

O'Higgins fl.1903 (Chilean)

Ocean (1805)

Porvenir fl.1904

Presidente Sarmiento (1897)

Pueyrredon fl.1900 (Argentinian)

San Martin (1896)

Terrible (1895)

Vanguard (1835)

Exhibition

North-West Passage

People

Back, George

Balta, Jose D.

Beresford, Genfl

Boys, Henry (RN)

Boys, William H (RN)

Brown, Admfl

Burgess, John, retfl

Cabral, Pedro Alvares

Chilean Navy

Chilean School of Naval Engineers

Cochrane, Thomas

Columbus, Christopher

Cook, James

Courbet, Amédée

Cust, Francis P

d'Orléans, François-Ferdinand-Philippe-Louis-Marie

Elder, Thomas Wyon the

Encalada, Manuel Blanco

Fowler, Robert Merrick

General Alvear

Grau Seminario, Miguel Maria

Heming & Co

Howe, Richard

Humane Society of Massachussetts

Johnson, Thomas

Juan Gottuzzo & Ca

Kempson, Peter

King Louis XIV of France

Liardet, Francis

Life-Saving Institute of the Mediterranean

Lifesavers of Algiers

Lockyer, Hughes Campbell

Lusitania Souvenir Medal Committee

Martin, Cornwallis Wykeham

Mello, Custodio de

Naval Brigade

Popham, Home Riggs

Prat, Captd

Prince Maurice of Orange

Queen Maria Theresa, Consort of King Louis XIV of France

Rossi, A. F.

Rossi, Constante

Ross Ltd

Royal Humane Society

Saunders, Walter John Tite

Scott, Charles Montagu Douglas

Vinci, Leonardo da

W & B

Watts, James Samuel

Wyon, Peter

Century

unknown

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Naval telescope

Bare Needle Type (Surveying compass)

Equinoctial dial

Officer of the Watch telescope

Naval telescope

Officer of the Watch telescope

Night telescope

Day telescope

Theodolite

Compass card

Qibla indicator

Medal depicting the naval monument at Valparaiso; obverse

Medal depicting the naval monument at Valparaiso (Medal)

Inclining dial

Medal commemorating the defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588; obverse

Medal commemorating the defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588 (Medal)

Medal commemorating the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America, 1892; obverse

Medal commemorating the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America, 1892 (Medal)

Medal commemorating the improved harbour works at Callao; obverse

Medal commemorating the improved harbour works at Callao (Medal)

String-gnomon dial

Medal commemorating peace between Chile and Argentina, 1911; obverse

Medal commemorating peace between Chile and Argentina, 1902 (Medal)

Southampton Promissory halfpenny token (Token - halfpenny)

Medal commemorating the Italian battleship 'Leonardo da Vinci'; obverse

Medal commemorating the Italian battleship 'Leonardo da Vinci' (Medal)

Fisherman's charm (Amulet)

Telescope eyepiece

Officer of the Watch telescope & gunsight

No 1 4.7 Telescope Gun Sight (Officer of the Watch telescope)

Azimuth compass

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