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Astronomical and navigational instruments
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
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Adze
Anchor
Anchor; Roman
Anchor model
Anchor model: Half killick
armament, ethnographic: axe
armament, ethnographic: club
armament t&e, ammunition: cannonball
armament t&e, ammunition: shot
armament t&e, firearm: musket ?
Armillary sphere
Astrolabe
Astrolabe7
Astronomical regulator
astronomical t&e: astrolabe
astronomical t&e: sphere, armillary
Axe
Ballast
barrelmaking t&e: oilstone(cooper's)
Base
Bellarmine jug
Bottle
Bottle, whisky
Bowl
Bowl lid
Bowl with lid
Box
Box base
Box containing ore samples
Box lid
Brooch
building: pagoda
Bust
Cabinet contents
Caddy
Candlestick
Cannonball
Cannon ball
Carvings
Casserole dish
Chelengk
Club
commemorative artifact: box
container: jar
Coral
Crook with stone
Cup
Dish
documentary artifact: lighthouse, model
Equinoctial dial
Equipment model
Equipment model; Anchor model
Equipment model; Anchor model: Half killick
Equipment model; Anchor model; Half killick
Equipment model; Anchor model; Half Killick
Equipment model; Anchor model; Killick
Equipment model; Anchor model; Stone anchor
Equipment model; Anchor model; Wood anchor
Equipment model; Lobster pot
Figure
Flask
food service t&e: dish
food service t&e: jug
Fossilised tusk
frame parts
Full hull model
Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails furled; Stove
Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set; Half killick
geological specimen: fossil tooth
geological specimen: ore, sample
geological specimen: tusk, fossil
Glass and ivory picture
Half killick
Half Killick
half killick
Hone
Jar
Jar lid
Jar with lid
Jug
Keeper
Killick
Killick Anchor
Killick stone
Knife
Ladle
Lid
Lighthouse model
Lighthouse model mount
Lobster pot
Locket
Lodestone
Lodestone and keeper
Malay single fluke anchor
Mammoth's tooth
Mammoth's tooth fragment
Mammoth's tooth fragments
Mammoth's tooth part
Medallion
medallion, portrait
meteorological t&e: sunshine recorder
Miniature basket
model
model lobster pot
Model Obelisk
Mortar
Motar
Mourning Ring
Mug
multiple use artifact: hone
multiple use artifact: stone, grinding(shipwrights)
oil stone
oilstone
Ore sample
original art: basket, miniature(pair)
original art: medallion, portrait
original art: ornament: carving, pagoda
original art: plaque, scenic
original art: sculpture: bust
original art accessory: pedestal
Ornament
Ornamental compass
Ornament lid
Paper knife
Pedestal
Pencil
Pendant
personal gear: chain, watch ?
personal gear: flask
personal gear: knife
Plaque
plaque
Plate
Platter
Plinth
Portrait medallion
Pot
Pottery sherd
presentation artifact: case, pencil
Presentation Small-Sword
Print
Quernstone
Red sandstone
relic: rock
relic: sandstone, red
Rigged model
Ring
Rock
Roman
Rudder
Sails furled
Sails set
Scaphe and horizontal pedestal dial
Scenic plaque
scenic plaque
Scimitar
Seal
Shot: Section
Shot section
Signet Ring
Single Fluke killick
Slides
Spirit measure
Spittoon
stone
stone, grinding
Stone anchor
Stone Anchor
Stone and wooden crook
Stone and wooden half killick
Stone and wooden killick
Stone and wood killick
Stone with four crooks
Stove
Sugar bowl lid
Sunshine recorder
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, ornamental
surveying & navigational t&e: lodestone
Teapot
Teapot lid
Teapot with lid
timekeeping t&e: dial
timekeeping t&e: dial, fixed: dial, horizontal
Tobacco jar
Toby jug
Toki
unclassified artifact(fragment)
Unidentified Object
Unknown Item
Vase
visual communication t&e: lighthouse
Watch
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
water transport accessory: anchor, Roman
water transport accessory: killick
water transport accessory: killick (Greek/Roman)
water transport accessory: killick(stone only)
water transport accessory: model, anchor
water transport accessory: model, killick
whetstone
Wood anchor
woodworking t&e: whetstone(shipwrights)
written communication t&e: knife, paper
zoological specimen: coral
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base metal
bell metal
black stone
bloodstone
blued-steel
brass
brass?
brilliants
bronze
cane
canvas
coconut fibre
coir
copper
copper alloy
cord
cork
cotton
crystal
damascened steel
enamel
enamelled copper plate
fish-skin
foil-backed stone
gem stones
gemstones
gilt
gilt-brass
gilt brass
gilt metal
glass
glass paste stones
gold
gold?
hardstone
human hair
inorganic: bloodstone
inorganic: calcium
inorganic: lead
inorganic: limestone
inorganic: plaster, ?
inorganic: rock, siltstone
inorganic: sandstone
inorganic: soapstone, ?
inorganic: stone
inorganic: stone: lava, ?
iron
ironstone china (earthenware)
ironstone china (earthenware), colour cream and blue.
ironstone china (earthenware), painted white & blue & gold & red.
ironstone china (earthenware), painted white & gold & blue & red.
ivory
lead
leather
limestone
lithograph printed with two stones
lodestone
mahogany
mercury
metal
metal: brass
metal: iron
metal: lodestone
metal: silver-gilt
metal: steel
moonstone
mother of pearl?
net on hooped can and a wooden base, orginally with two natural stone weights (one missing)
nickel
oil stone
organic: cotton
organic: fibre
organic: ivory
organic: moss
organic: sandstone, red
painted white & blue & gold & red.
painted white & gold & blue & red.
paper
paste stones
peach stone
pewter
photographic reproduction
plaster
polished steel
portland stone
rattan
red stone
reed
rolled gold and steel
rope
semi-precious stone
semi-precious stones
semi-precious stones (probably garnets)
silver
silvered brass
soapstone
steel
stone
stone (mineral specimens)
stone, Coade
stoneware
stoneware ?
synthetic: glass
textile
thread
Tisbury stone
turquoise stone
twine
unglazed
unidentified hardstone
vitreous paste
walnut
watercolour paint
wood
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Display - Atlantic Gallery
Display - Cutty Sark
Display - Nelson, Navy, Nation Gallery
Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery
Display - Park Row Wing
Display - QH
Display - ROG
Display - Sea Things Gallery
Display - Traders Gallery
Display - Voyagers
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after O. B. Carter & H. Warren
al-Yazdi, Muhammad Mahdi
Bourne, T. C.
Broad, J.
Coade and Seeley
Daniel, Christopher St John Hume
Day-Lewis
De Vaere (after), John
Dudson Brothers
Elijah Mayer & Son
Elliott, George E.
Ferreri, Joannes Paolo
Flaxman, John
G. L. Ashworth & Bros Ltd
Garrard & Co. Ltd
George Clews
George Clews & Co Ltd
Green, Stephen
Gregson
Hayward, T.
Hullmandel, Charles Joseph
John Maddock & Sons Ltd
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd
Kishere
Makepeace, Robert
Meigh
Morisset, James
Ove Hovalt
Pennington, Robert
Ridgway & Abington
Royal Doulton
Russell, Edwin
Shout, Robert
T. & J. Hollins
Teresa, Teresa
Trabet, J.
Turner, John
Unknown
Vaere, John De
Wedgwood
Wells, John
William Adams & Sons (Potters) Ltd
Worthington, Humble & Holland
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Burslem
Canada
Castleford, West Yorkshire, England
China
City of Westminster
Egypt
England
France
Fulham
Hanley
Iran
Italy
Japan
Lambeth
Liverpool
London
Longton
Mangaia, Cook Islands
Mortlake
Naples
Papua New Guinea
Paris
Russia
Scandinavia
Shelton, Staffordshire, England
Staffordshire
Staffordshire, England ?
Toxteth
Tunstall
Unknown
Yixing, China
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Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Burwash, 1926
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Inglefield, 1852
Birth of Matthew Flinders, 1774
Exploration: Cook's First Voyage, 1768
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798
French Revolutionary Wars: Defence of Acre, 1799
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
Naval Ceremonial Review, 1853
Second Boer War, 1889-1902
War of Jenkins' Ear: Capture of Chagres, 1740
War of Jenkins' Ear: Capture of Porto Bello, 1739
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Vessels
Bellerophon (1786)
Clive 1824
Culloden (1783)
Endeavour (1764)
Hampshire 1852 (barque)
Investigator (1795)
Isabel fl.1850
Mary Rose (1509)
Powerful (1895)
Princess Maude
Vanguard 1787 (HMS)
Victory (1765)
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Nelson, Navy, Nation
Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton
Time and Longitude
Traders: The East India Company and Asia
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Alldridge, George Manley
Beatty, David
Bellamy, George
Bentall, H.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Brummell, George Bryan
City of London
Collingwood, Cuthbert
Cook, James
Cremer, Mary
Cunard Line
Daniel, Christopher St John Hume
Dudson Brothers
Duncan, Adam
Elijah Mayer & Son
Fawssett, A. C.
Fielder, W
Flinders, Matthew
Girdlestone, Frances
Graves, Thomas
Graves, Thomas North
Green, J. F.
Green, Stephen
Greenwich Hospital
Hamilton, Emma
Hamilton, William
Hardy, Pamela
Hardy, Thomas Masterman
Harvey, Eliab
Harvey, William
Hawke, Edward
Hawkins, John Croft
Hein, Piet Pieterzoon
Herschel, Alexander Stewart
HM Dockyard, Chatham
Howe, Richard
III, Sultan Selim
Indian Navy
Jervis, John
Joaquim Antunes Ferreira & Co.
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd
King George III
King George IV
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
Meigh
Meux (formerly Lambton), Hedworth
Miller, Ralph Willett
Moore, Henry
Mortlock, Lewis
Nelson, Horatia
Nelson, Horatio
North of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Shipping Co Ltd
Pasha, Ali Mahomed
Pennington, Robert
Queen Charlotte, Consort of George III
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Victoria
Raleigh, Walter
Rich, Edward
Ridgway & Abington
Robinson, Gregory
Rodney, George Brydges
Royal Doulton
Royal Mail Lines Ltd
Scott, Percy Moreton
Smith, William Sidney
Somers, George
Sultan, Sa'id Ibn
Thomas and Richard Carpenter
Townsend Thoreson
Trabet, J.
Troubridge, Thomas
Turner, John
Vaere, John De
Vernon, Edward
Ward, James
Wedgwood, Josiah
Wells, John
William Adams & Sons (Potters) Ltd
Williams, John
Willis, John 'Jock'
Windsor, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David
Wolfe, James
Worthington, Humble & Holland
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