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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
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Achromatic telescope
astronomical t&e: telescope
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic
astronomical t&e: telescope, refracting
Atlas
Cabinet contents
Case
Compass
Compass card
documentary artifact: model, ethnographic boat
documentary artifact: notice
Drawing
Draw tube for the telescope
Equinoctial dial
Full hull model
Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set
Hand-held telescope
Manuscript
Mariner's compass
Miniature
Night telescope
Non-achromatic night telescope
Non-achromatic telescope
Notice
optical t&e: telescope
optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)
optical t&e: telescope, spy glass
Painting
Part of the octagonal telescope barrel
Pin cushion
Pocket telescope
Pocket telescope objective lens cap
Pocket telescope objective lens cover
Pocket telescope objective lense cover
Polygonal telescope
Portable telescope
Presentation Sword
Print
Rigged model
Sails set
Scabbard
Scroll
Small-sword
Small-Sword Scabbard
Spy glass telescope
Spyglass telescope
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's
Sword
Technical drawing
Technical record
Telescope
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, equinoctial
Vellum cover
water transport: fighting vessel: man o' war (Netherlands)
water transport: passenger vessel: dghaisa, Maltese
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
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black ink
blue colour wash
bodycolour on vellum
boxwood
brass
brown colour wash
brown ink
buckram (possibly)
card
cord
cream paint
damascened steel
etching
fish-skin
gilt
gilt coating
gilt wire
glass
gold
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gold leaf
gold paint
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green colourwash
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gum arabic
horn
ink
ivory
leather
lignum vitae
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metal-gilt
metal wire
mounted vellum
on vellum, laid on fruitwood panel
organic: cotton
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paint
paper
pen
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pen & ink, brown
pen & ink, brown & wash, grey
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pencil
photograph, probably on vellum, with watercolour
pigment
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rayskin
rayskin (shagreen)
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red ink
ribbon
rope
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sharkskin
silk
silver
silver (probably)
silver wire
silver wire and silver ribbon
steel
textile
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vellum
vellum (?)
vellum?
velvet
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watercolour
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wood
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Display - Tudor and Stuart Seafarers Gallery
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Baston, Thomas
Battem, Gerrit
Cock, Christopher
Cooper, Samuel
Cuff, John
Dollond & Aitchison
Dollond, Peter
Dudley
English School, 16th century
Flemish School
Gallucio, Joanne Paulo
Goulding, Frederick
Hamel
Henry Wilkinson
Hilliard, N.
Hilliard, Nicholas
Holbein, Hans
Horenbout, follower of Lucas
Hoskins, John
Jeffrey, Thomas
Kneller, Godfrey
Langford, Thomas
Lewis, William
Longland, William
Marshall, John
Monogrammist V.H.E.
Oliver, Isaac
Prosser, John
Robb, J
Robb, J.
Rogers, Henry
Sayde
Schellinks, Willem
Sterrop, George
Stoopendael, Bastiaan
Storck, Johannes
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Velde, Willem van de, the Elder
Velde, Willem van de, the Younger
Vitringa, Wigerus
Willdey, George
Wyllie, William Lionel
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Westminster
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Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish Armada, 1588
Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Parry, 1827
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
Operations against the Pirates of Malacca Straits, 1836-1870
Second Anglo-Dutch War: Attack on the Medway, 1667
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Andromache (1832)
Eagle (ca.1796)
Hecla (1815)
Lark (1799)
Melville (1817)
Paerrel (c.1650)
Serpent (1832)
Unnamed 96ft, 20-22-gun sailing and rowing galley
William & Mary 1694 [British navy]
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Pirates
Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames
Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution
The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea
Time and Longitude
Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits
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Anonymous
Barnardiston, Thomas
Baston, Thomas
Chads, Henry Ducie
Clifford, George
Digby, Kenelm
Dudley
Dutch Fleet
Evans
Gore, Honourable Colonel William J.
Gore, Honourable Robert
Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, James
Hamilton, Emma
Hamilton, William
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia
Herschel, Margaret Louisa
Herschel, Maria Sophia
Herschel, Matilda Rose
Jones, John Paul
Kempenfelt, Richard
Keppel, Augustus
King Charles II
Merchants & Underwriters of Bombay
National Maritime Museum
Nelson, Horatio
Nicolas, Nicolas Harris
Oliver, Richard Aldworth
Penotiere, Frederick de la
Pepys, Samuel
Prosser, John
Pym-Hale, Thomas
Rear-Admiral Edward Hilary Rymer, Edward Hilary
Royal Navy
Royal United Service Institution
Schellinks, Willem
Seymour, Thomas
Smith, Joshua Jonathan
Stoopendael, Bastiaan
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An unidentified lady, formerly called called Elizabeth I (Miniature)
Sir Kenelm Digby, 1603 - 65 (Miniature)
First Rate (17th Century) (Technical drawing)
Paul Jones (Drawing)
The Lark Lugger (Drawing)
Royal Yacht William & Mary Drawing for decoration, including bows (Drawing)
Royal Yacht William & Mary Drawing for decoration, including stern (Drawing)
A Dutch man-of-war (Painting)
States yacht under sail and a Dutch flagship at anchor (Drawing)
Battle of Trafalgar (Print)
Study of broadside view of a Dutch frigate (Drawing)
Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley , c. 1509 - 49 (Miniature)
George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland,1558-1605 (Miniature)
The Dutch in the Medway, 1667 (Drawing)
Portable telescope
Small-Sword Scabbard
Specification for the 1719 Establishment (Manuscript)
Sword
Pocket telescope
Pocket telescope
Portable telescope
Sword
Night telescope
Rose of the Winds (Compass card)
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