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Aiguillette
aiguillettes
Anchor model
apron, freemason's
armament, ethnographic: arrow
armament t&e, edged weapon: sword, solid half-basket hilt(pipe-back blade)
Arm badge
Arrow
badge, cap
Bag
Banner
Belt
belt, full dress sword
belt, sword
binnacle
Cap
Cap badge
cap badge
cap badge; cap band
cap band
cap band with cap badge
Cap ribbon
ceremonial artifact: apron, freemason's
ceremonial artifact: banner
ceremonial artifact: colour
ceremonial artifact: flag, house
ceremonial artifact: standard
City of London Presentation Sword
Cloak
clothing, headwear: uniform: cap
clothing, headwear: uniform: hat, cocked
clothing, headwear: uniform: uniform, Barge Crew's
clothing, headwear: uniform: uniform, Captain's
clothing, headwear: uniform: uniform, Elder Brother of Trinity House's
clothing, headwear: uniform: uniform, Flag Officer's
clothing, neckwear: uniform: collar
clothing, outerwear: uniform: cloak
clothing, outerwear: uniform: coat
clothing, outerwear: uniform: coat, frock
clothing, outerwear: uniform: coat, full dress
clothing, outerwear: uniform: coat, undress
clothing, outerwear: uniform: full dress uniform, Governor of Tasmania's
clothing, outerwear: uniform: jacket, round(tropical)
clothing, outerwear: uniform: undress uniform, Vice-Admiral's
clothing, outerwear: uniform: uniform, Commander's
clothing, outerwear: uniform: uniform, Elder Brother of Trinity House's
clothing, outerwear: uniform: uniform, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath's
clothing, outerwear: uniform: uniform, Waterman's
clothing, outerwear: waistcoat
clothing accessory: uniform: belt, sword: belt, full dress sword
clothing accessory: uniform: full dress uniform, Captain's
clothing accessory: uniform: full dress uniform, Flag Officer's
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: badge, cap
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: epaulettes
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: epaulettes(1 only)
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: ribbon, cap
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Admiral's
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Captain's (under 3 years seniority)
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Elder Brother of Trinity House's
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Lieutenant's
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Lieutenant's (over 8 years seniority)
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Staff Commander's
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Vice-Admiral's
Coat
Cocked hat
cocked hat bullion
Cocked hat bullion
cocked hat part
Cocked hat tassle
Collage
Collar
Colour
Compass and binnacle
Compass card
Creag-Osborne Protractor
Creagh-Osborne protractor
Creagh-Osborne Protractor
Cuff
Dirk
documentary artifact: globe, skeleton: globe, navigational instruction
documentary artifact: programme
Drawing
Dress coat
Dry card compass
Dry card compass and binnacle
Dry compass
Epaulette
epaulette box
Epaulettes
Epaulettes, pair
Equipment model
Equipment model; Anchor model; Killick
Equipment model; Anchor model; Stone anchor
Equipment modelShip equipment model
Folder
Frock coat
Full dress coat
Full dress sword belt
Full hull model
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set; water barrel
Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set; steering oar
Hat
hat, cocked
Hat, cocked
hat, cocked [part]
House flag
insignia, cuff
Jacket
Killick
Lanyard
Leather sheath
Liquid compass
Liquid compass and binnacle
Magnet corrector
Magnet corrector - aircraft compass
Mariner's compass
Memorial wreath
Nautical globe
Paper parts
Parasol
Periscope sextant, stabilising platform
Periscope Sextant Stabilising Platform
Periscope Sextant Stabilising Platform
Periscope Sextant Stabilising Platform - submarine?
personal symbol: coat of arms, Trinity House
personal symbol: crest
Plank-on-frame
Presentation Sword
Presentation Sword scabbard
Programme
Protractor (Creagh-Osborne type)
Rigged model
Round jacket
Sails set
Scimitar
Sculpture
Sectional model
Sectional model; Equipment model
Sectional modelEquipment model
Ship equipment model
Shoulder strap
shoulder strap
Sketchbook
Skull cast and surgeon's equipment
Solid Half-Basket Hilted Sword
Soulder strap
Spool of thread
Standard 10" compass and binnacle
steering oar
Stone Anchor
Stone with four crooks
strap, shoulder
Stretcher
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, dry
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: corrector, magnet(aircraft)
Sword
Sword belt
Tablecloth
Thread
Trousers
Undress coat
Variable power telescope case
Waistcoat
Wall mounted embroidery
Wall mounted sailor's collar
water barrel
water transport accessory: binnacle
water transport accessory: killick
water transport accessory: model, killick
water transport component: midship: keel, sliding
water transport component: model, sliding keel: sectional model(working)
Wreath
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18 crt gold
aluminium
amber horn
animal bone
Bakelite / Phenol Formaldehyde (PF)
base metal
beaver felt
beaver skin
blued steel
blue leather
brass
bronze
calico
card
cast iron
cat gut thread
coating: varnish
copper
copper wire
cotton
cotton thread
damascened steel
electrical wire?
enamel
enamel?
fabric
felt
fibre
fish-skin
fish skin
foam
gilot thread, metal
gilt
gilt-brass
gilt brass
gilt metal
gilt wire
glass
gold alloy
gold bullion
gold thread
gold wire
graphite
human hair
ivorine or white composite material
ivory
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leather
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liquid
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metal, gilt thread,
metal, gilt thread, fabric
metal, gold thread
metal-gilt
metal: gold thread
metal: silver thread
metal: thread, gold
metal or card
metal sequins
metal thread
metal threads
mica
mica?
nickel-plated steel
nylon thread ?
organic: bamboo
organic: bone
organic: silk
organic: thread
other plastic
paint
paper
perspex
photograph paper
pigskin
plaster
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printed
ribbon
sheet material
sheet metal
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silk plush
silk thread
silk threads
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silver wire
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spangles
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tape
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velvet
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Admiralty Compass Observatory
Aston & Mander Ltd.
Ball & Witt
Berser Collani, K L H & Co
Bilney & Co
Boggett & Reynolds
Boosman, W.
Cannon, W. F.
Charles Jennens & Co
Christy & Co Ltd
Cracknell, E. W.
Dudley
Edward Arnold
Edward Thurkle & Sons
Everett, (Herbert Barnard) John
Firmin & Sons Limited
Firmin King & Co
Fraser & Davis
Galt & Son
German, Richard
Gibson and Peat
Gieve, Matthews & Seagrove Limited
Gieves & Hawkes Ltd
Gillott
Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd
Hatch, Charles
Hawkes & Co Ltd
Hawksley, Rozanne
Hebbert & Hume
Highatt, F.
Hunter, John
J.F. Runkel, J F
J. MacKay & Company
John Adams & Son
K. L. H. Berser Collani & Company
Kelvin & Hughes Ltd
Kelvin & James White Ltd
Kelvin Bottomley & Baird Ltd
Keux, Richard Le
K L H Berser Collani & Company
Landon & Co
Lewis, N.
Lonsdale, C T
Ludolph, W.
Maracle, Ken
Ollivier & Brown
Osborn
Parkinson, R K
Plath, C.
Reeves
Rigg, T. M.
Shewan, John
Starkey, J
Stchwasser, J
Stone, John
Symons
Teed, Richard
Thomson, William
Unknown
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Van Emden, A
White, James
Widdowson & Veale
Ya, Tung
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French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Pulo Aura, 1804
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
Napoleonic Wars: Rovigno, 1809
Nuremberg trials, 1945-1946
Royal Naval Athletic Sports, 1880
Second Opium War, 1857-1860
Second Opium War: Battle of Fatshan Creek, 1857
War of the Third Coalition: Invasion of Naples, 1806
World War I: Battle of Jutland, 1916
World War II, 1939-1945
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Black Prince (1904)
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Hornet (1854)
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Invincible (1907)
L'Amerique 1787 [French navy]
L'Amerique 1787, Boarding Division of
Leda fl.1809 (French gunboat)
Leviathan 1790 [HMS]
Loire 1798 (HMS)
Mercury 1779 (HMS)
Naiad 1797 (HMS)
Pallas fl.1800 (French Navy)
Queen Mary (1912)
Royal Naval uniform regulations 1812-25: Officers
Strathlairg
Tilbury (exact vessel unknown but probably 1918 destroyer)
Tipperary (1915)
Turbulent (1916)
Warrior (1905)
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North-West Passage
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Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton
The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire
Traders: The East India Company and Asia
Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits
Voyagers
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Adams, Carlton R.
Anderson, Donald
Arthur Tooker, Collins,
Askew, Joan
Barker, A. Derek
Beasleigh, W.
Beatty, David
Beatty, David Field
Blackwall Line
Blake, William Hans
Bosanquet, Henry Theodore Augustus
Britannia
Carew, Benjamin Hallowell
City of London
Cochrane, Thomas
Cornwallis, William
Crofton, Edward
Dumaresq, Thomas
Dundas, Thomas
Dunn, Wilfred Henry
Farlow, A. J. C.
Finlaison, John Bruce
Forsyth, Charles Codrington
Gentlemen of the Isle of Thanet
Gieve, Matthews & Seagrove Limited
Gieves & Hawkes Ltd
Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd
Greenhill, Basil Jack
Greenwich Hospital
Greenwich Hospital Collection
Hawkes & Co Ltd
Hercules, Hercules
Hervey, Frederick William Fane
Hitchfield, John James Pearce
Home, Captain James Everard
Honourable East India Company
Hood, Samuel
Hope, George Johnstone
Hornby, Geoffrey Thomas Phipps
Hornby, Phipps
Hornby, Robert Stewart Phipps
Hornby, William Wyndham
Hornby, Wyndham Mark Phipps
Hyde, Frederick William
Imperial Russian Navy
Indian Navy
Infantry), Colonel Frank Valiant Temple (Royal Marine Light
Jervis, John
Jones, Harold Spencer
K. L. H. Berser Collani & Company
Kaiguang, Huang
Keppel, Colin Richard
Lempriere, F
Lewin, Terence Thornton
Lloyd's Patriotic Fund
Macdonald, Reginald John
McClintock, Francis Leopold
Monk, George Mitford
Nairne, Alexander
Napier, Charles John
Nazi Party
Nelson, Horatio
Nias, Joseph
Nisbett, Andrew
Oliver, Richard Aldworth
Pell, Watkin Owen
Prince Albert, Consort of Queen Victoria
Pritchard, Edward Fitzgerald
Queen Victoria
R. & H. Green Ltd, Richard & Henry
Richards, R. C.
Royal Marines
Royal Marines Light Infantry
Royal Naval Air Service
Royal Navy
Royal United Service Institution
Schanck, John
Seymour, Lord Hugh
Smith, W. E
Staines, Captain Thomas
Starkey, J
Tharp, Madeleine Jane
The Corporation of Trinity House
Thomson, William
Trelawny-Ross, W. T.
Windsor, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David
Woodget, Richard
Wykeham-Martin, Julia
Yeoman, B
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Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1795 (Epaulette)
Sword
Sword
Compass and binnacle
Royal Marines uniform: pattern 1782 (Dress coat)
Non-regulation cap (Cap)
Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1812 (Epaulette)
Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1795 (Epaulette)
Compass and binnacle
Banner
Arrow (Arrow)
Spool of thread
Folder
Thread
Liquid compass
King's Colour (Colour)
Tablecloth
Leading Weapons Engineering Mechanic (Ordnance) (Arm badge)
Civil court dress: 1837 (Full dress coat)
Dry card compass and binnacle
Dry compass
Sketchbook
Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1843 (Cocked hat)
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