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documentary artifact: ship plan
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Barrow Shipbuilding Company
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Burn, Gerald
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C. J. Mare & Co
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D Badcock (Marine) Ltd
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Woolwich Dockyard
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Wave (purchased 1882)
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Abethell, Richard
Angear, J.
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Modeste (1873) (technical drawing)
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'Victoria & Albert' (1843) (Technical drawing)
Sembilan (1922) (Technical drawing)
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Cutty Sark (1869) (Technical drawing)
Cutty Sark (1869) (Technical drawing)
Cronstat and vessels from the sea, June 27 1853 (Drawing)
Bacharach, on the Rhine (Drawing)
2 views of Malcesina, Lago di Garda. Inscr (Drawing)
Heidelberg - gate from the town (Drawing)
Map of the River Tow and Bideford Bay (for Mariners Mirror?) (Drawing)
Rome, evening: St Peter'sand the Castel Sant' Angelo from the Tiber (Drawing)
Tasso's Oak, Rome (Drawing)
Venice, inscr 'Gave original to Mr Decimus Burton The Armenian Convent' (Drawing)
A guide to building keels or centreboards for 30ft to 40ft ferroconcrete yachts (Technical drawing)
'Good Hope' 38.6ft ketch [Design 199]; 'Barrier Reef' 38.5ft ketch [Design 205] (Technical drawing)
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Ironwork details for cruising yachts of 24ft to 30ft waterline length (Technical drawing)
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