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Admiralty Ships' Covers

Sailing Navy

Type

documentary artifact: ship plan

documentary artifact: ship plan: body

documentary artifact: ship plan: cable compressor

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, forecastle

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, main

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, poop

documentary artifact: ship plan: head

documentary artifact: ship plan: hold(stowage)

documentary artifact: ship plan: lines

documentary artifact: ship plan: lines & profile

documentary artifact: ship plan: plug, waste water pipe

documentary artifact: ship plan: profile(part)

documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard

documentary artifact: ship plan: propeller, screw

documentary artifact: ship plan: rig, general arrangement

documentary artifact: ship plan: sail

documentary artifact: ship plan: screw shaft

documentary artifact: ship plan: section, frame

documentary artifact: ship plan: sheer

Drawing

Experiment of Leith

Full hull model

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set

Head

Historic Photograph Album

Manuscript

Plank-on-frame

Rigged model

Sails set

Tank model

techncial drawing

Technical drawing

technical drawing

water transport

water transport: cargo vessel

water transport: cargo vessel: barge

water transport: cargo vessel: brig, slave

water transport: cargo vessel: lighter

water transport: dumb vessel

water transport: fighting vessel

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

water transport: fighting vessel: 10 gun boat

water transport: fighting vessel: 46 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: aircraft carrier, light fleet (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: battleship, turret (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: corvette

water transport: fighting vessel: frigate

water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat

water transport: fighting vessel: gunvessel

water transport: fighting vessel: schooner

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, brig

water transport: passenger vessel: troopship

water transport: sailing vessel

water transport: sailing vessel: schooner

water transport: sailing vessel: ship

water transport: service vessel

water transport: service vessel: cutter (23ft)

water transport: service vessel: cutter (30ft)

water transport: service vessel: depot, powder

water transport: service vessel: navigational light vessel

water transport: service vessel: pinnace

water transport: service vessel: pinnace (28ft)

water transport: service vessel: storeship

water transport: service vessel: tug

water transport: steam & sailing vessel, paddle

water transport: steam & sailing vessel, single screw

water transport: steam & sailing vessel, single screw: schooner

water transport: steam vessel, paddle

Materials

black

black colour wash

black ink

blue, grey and yellow colour wash

blue, yellow, red, grey inkwashes

blue colour

blue colour wash

blue colourwash

blue crayon

blue ink

blue ink (with blue & yellow colour wash)

blue inkwash

blueprint

blue wash

brown colour

brown colourwash

brown colour wash

brown inkwash

brown wash

crayon & graphite

crayon, black

drawing ink

dyeline

folder mounted tracing paper

gelatin silver print

graphite

graphite & pen & ink

graphite & pen & ink, brown

graphite & wash

graphite & watercolour

green colour wash

green ink

green wash

grey colour wash

grey colourwash

grey wash

ink, brown

linen

linen (backing)

linen (mount)

linen-backed paer

linen-backed paper

linen backed paper

linen backed tracing paper

linen tracing paper

Marine ply, lime, ramin and boxwood. Metal - brass, copper and stainless steel, Glues used were white wood glue, epoxy and superglue, sails are tracing linen. Paints are enamel with polyurethane varnish.

mauve colour wash

mounted tracing paper

ochre colour wash

oiled tracing paper

orange colour wash

paper

paper (tracing)

paper (tracing paper mounted)

paper (tracing paper mounted-fragile)

paper backed tracing paper

pen & ink

pen & ink, black

pen & ink, black & watercolour

pen & ink, brown

pencil

pink colour wash

pink colourwash

pink wash

plastic backed tracing paper

print of a tracing

print of tracing

purple colourwash

purple wash

red colour

red colour wash

red colourwash

red ink

red ink, with blue, red and grey colour wash

red ink, with blue and red colour wash

red pencil

red wash

sepia

sepia ink

tracing

tracing linen

tracing on paper

tracing paper

tracing paper (brittle)

tracing paper (brittle )

tracing paper (conserved)

tracing paper (fragile & torn)

tracing paper (fragile)

tracing paper (fragile/torn)

tracing paper (mounted)

tracing paper (mounted in reverse)

tracing paper (mounted on brown paper)

tracing paper (oil impregnated)

tracing paper (torn)

tracing paper (torn, in pieces)

tracing paper (very fragile)

tracing paper - mounted

tracing paper-mounted

tracing paper backed with plastic

tracing paper mounted

tracing paper mounted-fragile

tracing paper mounted on paper

tracing paper on linen

tracing paper [fragile]

ttracing paper (very fragile)

watercolour

wax linen tracing paper

yellow colour wash

yellow colourwash

yellow ink

yellow wash

Display Location

Not on display

Creator

Ailsa Shipbuilding Co Ltd

Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd

Arkwright, John

Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd

Armstrong, William George

Atkinson, C. K.

Barrow Shipbuilding Company

Birkenhead Ironworks

Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co Ltd

Boyle, Vernon C.

Bray, J.

Brierly, Oswald Walters

Burn, Gerald

C.E., Josiah M Geyov

C. J. Mare & Co

Cammell Laird & Co Ltd

Camper and Nicholsons

Chapelle, Howard I.

Charles F. Henwood

Charles Frederic Henwood, Charles F.

Clayton, C. P.

Clyde Shipbuilding and Engineering Co Ltd

Cochrane & Sons Ltd

Cook, Welton and Gemmell Ltd

Cooke, Edward William

Cromek, Thomas H.

Day, Summers & Co Ltd

D Badcock (Marine) Ltd

Director of Naval Construction

Dummer, J.

Elder, Alexander P

Fife, Junior, William

Fleming & Ferguson Ltd

Frederick R Parker (Partners) Ltd

G. L. Watson & Co

Griffiths, Maurice

Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries Ltd

Harland & Wolff Ltd

Henderson, A.

HM Admiralty

HM Dockyard, Chatham

HM Dockyard, Devonport

Huddy, J.B.

Inglefield, Edward Augustus

J. & W. Dudgeon

J. and G. Rennie

J. G. Fay & Co

John I. Thornycroft & Co. Ltd

Lapthorn & Ratsey

Leslie, Robert C.

Lloyd, Thomas

Ludbrook, Alan

Megginson, G.

Mends, George Pechell

Ministry of Defence

Mylne, Alfred

Nance, Robert Morton

Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd

Reed, Edward James

Richardson, A.

Robert Napier & Sons

Roberts, Julius

Samuda Brothers Ltd.

Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation

Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd

Storey, W C

Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd

T. B. Seath & Co

Thames Iron Works Shipbuilding & Engineering Co

United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)

Unknown

Vickers-Armstrong Limited

Werner, Carl

Western Pipe and Steel Company

William Beardmore & Company

William Fairbairn & Sons

William Fife & Son Ltd

William Fife, Junior

William Hamilton and Company Ltd

Woolwich Dockyard

Workman, Clark & Co Ltd

Wyllie, after Harold

Wyllie, William Lionel

Places

Aberdeen

Barrow-in-Furness

Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom

Belfast

Belfast, Belfast City, United Kingdom

Beverley

Birkenhead

Blackwall

Blackwall, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Blyth

Chatham Dockyard

Chiswick

City of Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Cowes

Dalmuir

Deptford Dockyard

Deptford Dockyard, Deptford, London Borough of Lewisham, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Devonport Dockyard

Devonport Dockyard, Devonport, Devon, England, United Kingdom

Elswick

England

Fairlie

Glasgow

Govan

Govan, Greater Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Hamburg

Haslar, Portsmouth, Hampshire

Hythe

Jarrow

Linthouse

Liverpool

London

London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Millwall

Millwall, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Newcastle upon Tyne

Northam

Northam, Southampton, City of Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Northam Yard, Southampton

Paisley

Pallion

Pembroke Dockyard

Poole

Poplar

Port Glasgow

Portsmouth Dockyard

Portsmouth Dockyard, City of Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

Puget Sound

Rome

Rutherglen

San Francisco

Seattle

Selby

Sheerness Dockyard

Sheerness Dockyard, Sheerness, Sheppey, Kent, England, United Kingdom

Somerset House

Somerset House, Strand, City of Westminster, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Southampton

Southampton, City of Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Tacoma

The Admiralty

Troon

Unknown

Venice

Vincoli

Wallsend

West Mersea

Westminster

Woodbridge

Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Woolwich Dockyard

Events

Greek War of Independence, Battle of Navarino, 1827

Vessels

Aboukir (1848)

Adela (1903)

Agamemnon (1879)

Agincourt (1865)

Ajax (1880)

Albatross (1873)

Albion (1842)

Alecto (1882)

Algerine (1857)

Amethyst (1873)

Angler (1856)

Ant (1856)

Arab (1874)

Arapeles

Arapiles (1864)

Archer (1849)

Arrogant (1848)

Asia (1824)

Assurance

Aurora (1897)

Baltic Arrow (1956)

Barham (1889)

Barracouta (1851)

Barrier Reef (1967)

Bermuda (1848)

Bittern (1869)

Black Prince (1861)

Blanche (1867)

Blossom (1856)

Bluewater (1977)

Britannia (1820)

Briton (1869)

Bud (1892)

Bullfinch (1868)

Bulwark (1948)

Caprice (1903)

Cariad (1903)

Centaur (1845)

Centaur (1947)

Cequintinanho 1857

Chacabuco 1866

Challenger (1858)

Champion (1878)

Charmian (1896)

Cheerful (1855)

Childers 1863

Chub (1855)

Cicely (1902)

Cingalese

Cockler

Columbine (1891)

Cordelia (1881)

Cormorant (1877)

Creole (1927)

Cruiser (1877)

Curlew (1868)

Cutty Sark (1869)

Cyclops (1839)

Daisy (1856)

Danae (1867)

Daphne (1866)

Dapper (1855)

Dauntless (1847)

Decoy (1856)

Deutschland ca.1820 [German navy]

Devastation (1871)

Diamond (1874)

Diamond 1793? [British]

Dido (1869)

Diligente (fl.1839)

Dis (1888)

Drake (1856)

Dromedary (purchased 1873)

Dryad (1866)

Duncan (1859)

Dusky Queen (1896)

Dwarf (1856)

Eclipse (1867)

Edinburgh (1846)

Eileen (1897)

Emerald (1876)

Endurance (1956)

Euryalus (1877)

Exmouth (1854)

Fairsky [ex Barnes, Attacker, and Castle Forte] (1941)

Fancy (1855)

Fearless (1886)

Fenella (1856)

Fidget (1856)

Flirt (1856)

Flora (1844)

Forth (1833)

Forward (1877)

Foxhound (1877)

Franics Drake (1965)

Furious (1850)

Gadfly (1856)

Galatea

Garland (1856)

Gequitinhanan

Glasgow (1814)

Glatton (1795)

Glynwood (1882)

Gnat (1856)

Goliath (1842)

Good Hope (1967)

Gorgon (1837)

Grassendale

Hannibal (1854)

Harbinger

Harpy 1845

Helicon (1865)

Highflyer (1851)

Highflyer 1861

Himalaya (1853)

Hindostan (1841)

Hoopoe (1893)

Horatio (1807)

Humming Bird (1890)

Hyapura

Inconstant (1868)

Inflexible (1876)

Invincible (1869)

Irex (1884)

Iris (1877)

James Watt (1853)

Janus (1856)

Jaseur (1857)

Jasper (1857)

Kelpie (1903)

Lady Jocelyn (1852)

La Fleche (1896)

Lapwing (1867)

LCA 69 (1941)

Lee (1857)

Lethe (1889)

Levanter (1977)

Leven (1857)

Liffey (1856)

Lily (1874)

Lively (1870)

Locust (1840)

London (1840)

Lone Gull II (1961)

Magnet (1855)

Magpie (1868)

Maricanha

Marjorie (fl.1890)

Massena (1895)

Medusa (1838)

Megaera (1849)

Melpomene 1857? [HMS?]

Mercury (1878)

Meteor (1855)

Midge (1856)

Mildred (1877)

Mindelo

Minerva (1820)

Minotaur (1863)

Miranda (1851)

Modeste (1873)

Mohawk (1888)

Monarch (1868)

Myrmidon (1845)

Nautilus (1879)

Neptune (1910)

Nesta (1891)

Nettle (1856)

Niobe (1866)

Northumberland (1866)

Nymphe (1866)

Odin (1846)

Onyx (1856)

Oriental 1837

Orontes (1862)

Paraguassu

Pearl (1855)

Pente (1894)

Pera fl.1845

Perseverance (1854)

Pert (1856)

Pet (1856)

Petronilla (1888)

Philomel (1867)

Phoenix (1832)

Pilot (1879)

Plover (1867)

Plumper (1848)

Pluto (1831)

Pomone (1845) [French]

Prince Albert (1864)

Punjaub (1854)

Racer (1857)

Raleigh (1873)

Rambler (1856)

Rattlesnake (1886)

Rifleman (1846)

Ringdove (1867)

Rocket (1842)

Rocket (1868)

Roebuck (1856)

Rosario (1860)

Royal Alfred (1864)

Royalist (1861)

Ruby (1876)

Salamis (1863)

Sans Pareil (1851)

Sapphire (1874)

Scout (1885)

Seagull (1868)

Seahorse (1830)

Seamew (1857)

Sea Queen (1858)

Sembilan (1922)

Serapis (1866)

Shah (1873)

Sharpshooter (1846)

Simoom (1849)

Sirius (1868)

Slaney (1857)

Spartan (1868)

Stella Maris (1893)

Stranger (1885)

Sultan (1870)

Superb (1875)

Swallow (1868)

Swift (1879)

Tamar (1863)

Tambourine (1888)

Teazer (1846)

Temeraire (1876)

Tenedos (1870)

Termagant (1847)

Thetis (1871)

Thunderer (1872)

Tidewater (1958)

Tiger (1849)

Tiny (1856)

Toffee Apple (1948)

Transit

Transit (1855)

Troublesome (1890)

Turtle (1864)

Urgent (1855)

Valiant (1863)

Valkyrie (1889)

Valorous (1851)

Vanguard (1870)

Vestal (1865)

Viamao (1857)

Viannao (1861)

Victoria (1887)

Vigilant (1871)

Viking (1913)

Vindictive (1813)

Viper (1865)

Viper (1888)

Volage (1825)

Volage (1869)

Vulcan (1849)

Vulture (1869)

Warrior (1860)

Water Witch (1832)

Waterwitch (1866)

Wave (purchased 1882)

Whitehead (1970)

White Heather (1904)

Woodlark (1871)

People

Abethell, Richard

Angear, J.

Barnaby, Nathaniel

Barnes, Frederick Kynaston

Broad, John

Chatfield, Henry

Cradock, Henry

Edye, John

Elliott, J.

Fincham, John

Fincham, John Imman

Harland & Wolff Ltd

Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport

HM Dockyard, Chatham

Lander, C. W.

Lloyd, Thomas

Luard, William G.

Martin, Francis

Mitchell, W. M.

Moore, Alexander

Paget, Clarence Edward

Pembroke Dockyard

Read, Samuel

Reed, Edward James

Rice, William McPherson

Robinson, W. B.

Robinson, William B.

Saunders, R. P.

Steil, William H.

Sturdee, A B

Thornton, P.

Walker, Baldwin Wake

Walker, W. H.

Warren, E. C.

Warren, E C

Watts, Isaac

White, William Henry

Century

19th

20th

21st

unknown

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Meteor (1855) (technical drawing)

Salamis (1863) (technical drawing)

Proposed unnamed mooring lighter (technical drawing)

Invincible (1869) (technical drawing)

Mortar Vessels as proposed by Captain Julius Roberts Royal Marine Artillery (1855) (technical drawing)

Goliath (1842) (technical drawing)

Duncan (1859) (technical drawing)

Megaera (1849) (technical drawing)

Superb (1875) (Technical drawing)

Unnamed proposed iron floating dock (1856) (technical drawing)

Nymphe (1866) (technical drawing)

Simoom (1849) (technical drawing)

Magnet (1855) (technical drawing)

Waterwitch (1866) (technical drawing)

Ruby (1876) (technical drawing)

Roebuck (1856) (technical drawing)

Dart (purchased 1882) (Technical drawing)

Turtle (1864) (technical drawing)

Orontes (1862) (technical drawing)

Inflexible (1876) (technical drawing)

Unnamed proposed frigate designed by Admiral Lord Paget (technical drawing)

Tiger (1849) (technical drawing)

Tamar (1863) (technical drawing)

Rifleman (1846) (technical drawing)

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