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armament t&e, firearm: gun, submachine
Badge
Boat's liquid compass
Boat's Liquid Compass and Binnacle
Brochure
Builder's nameplate
Burgee
Calendar
ceremonial artifact: burgee
ceremonial artifact: flag
Chart
Chart; Print
Colour transparency
data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: computer, jet
Design, Half block model
documentary artifact: nameplate, builder's
Drawing
Dry card compass
Flag
Gun, Signal
Half block model
Horizontal dial
Jet computer
Jet computer - aircraft
Jet computer instructions
Jigsaw puzzle
Liquid compass and binnacle
Marine chronometer
Medal
Medal box base
Medal box lid
Octant
Octant box
Path Indicator
Pelorus, gyrocompass
Pelorus and stand
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Pistol
Print
Rangefinder
repeater, gyrocompass
sawset
Sheet film negative
sheet film negative
Signal gun
sound communication t&e: gun, signal
Submachine Gun
Submarine liquid compass
Submarine liquid compass and binnacle
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, boat's liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, submarine liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
surveying & navigational t&e: path indicator(Holmes)
surveying & navigational t&e: pelorus
surveying & navigational t&e: rangefinder(stadimeter)
Sword
Technical drawing
technical drawing
timekeeper: chronometer, marine
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(2 day)
timekeeping t&e: calendar
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, horizontal
water transport: fighting vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: submarine
water transport: model, design: block model(decked: half)
water transport: service vessel: lifeboat (SS Ocean Viscount)
water transport: steam vessel: screw, twin
water transport accessory: repeater, gyro
woodworking t&e: sawset(shipwrights)
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American Anti-Slavery Society
Annin Flag Co
Auto-Ordnance Corporation
Batori Computer Company Inc
Beck-Lee Corp
Bedford Lemere & Co
Bird, Henry P.
Bromley-Martin, Angela Felicity
Buttersworth, James Edward
Channing, Walter
Company, Commercial Cable
Cook, John Kingsley
Currier, Nathaniel
Duren, Henry
E. & G. W. Blunt
E. Remington & Sons
E. S. Ritchie & Sons
E Brown
Eggert & Son
Endicott & Co.
F. C. Gould & Son
Galbraith & Sons Inc
Geril
Gryspeerdt, Norman Louis
Heine, Peter Bernhard Wilhelm
Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport
HM Admiralty
Holmes Navigating Co
Hyde, J. B.
John Bliss & Co
Keuffel & Esser Co
Lane Lifeboat & Davit Corp
Lionel Corporation
Lovett, George Hampden
Marine Photo Service
Medallic Art Company
Morrill
Mr Renwick
Outdoor Supply Co. Inc
Palmer, H.
Parsons, Charles Richard
S. Stiles, Sherman & Smith
Sarony, Major & Knapp
Scandlin, Horace Winthrop
Sperry
Sperry Gyroscope Co Ltd
T. S. & J. D. Negus
T. Wells & Co.
Taylor, David
Thomas, Walter
Unknown
Walker, J. & C.
Ward, George Gray
Webb, W. H.
Weston, R.
White Star Line
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Devonport Dockyard
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New York Bicentennial Celebrations July 1976
Opening of the first Atlantic Telegraph Cable, 1858
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Adriatic (1856)
Agamemnon (1852)
Agwiqueen (1944)
Alexander Hamilton (1924)
Australian City (1964)
Bluenose II (1963)
Britannic (1930)
Cameronia (1920)
Canberra (1961)
Chakdina (1951)
Dayton (1930)
Delhi (1918)
Flying Cloud (1851)
Gordon [British]
Gripsholm (1925)
Illinois (1851)
Kungsholm (1928)
Monarch of Bermuda (1931)
Niagara [British]
Ocean Viscount fl.1945
Richard J Barrett (1919)
Samaria (1921)
Sir Winston Churchill (1966)
Strathlairg (1951)
Titanic (1912)
Valorous (1851)
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Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
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Kane, Elisha Kent
Lovett, George Hampden
Postel, Warren Fred
T. Wells & Co.
Wianno Yacht Club, Osterville, Massachusetts, US
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Octant box
Badge: Military Order of the World Wars (Badge)
Boat's Liquid Compass and Binnacle
Dry card compass
Burgee, Wianno Yacht Club, Osterville, Massachusetts (Burgee)
Burgee, Wianno Yacht Club, Osterville, Massachusetts (Burgee)
Medal commemorating Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857) (Medal)
Medal commemorating Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857) (Medal box lid)
A starboard broadside view of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner and cruise ship Canberra (1961) under way in the Hudson River, New York. (Sheet film negative)
Pelorus and stand
Liquid compass and binnacle
Submarine liquid compass and binnacle
Liquid compass and binnacle
Liquid compass and binnacle
sawset
The Niagara, Valorous, Gordon & Agamemnon laying the cable at mid-ocean (Print)
A New Travelling and Commercial Map of the CANADAS from the Sault of St. Marie to the River Saguenay and a large section of the United States of America .... Dedicated by Permission to Commodore Robert Barrie C.B. ... by ... David Taylor RN (Chart; Print)
Thompson Model 1928 A1 (Submachine Gun)
A starboard bow view of the paddle steamer Alexander Hamilton (1924) moored in New York Harbour. (Colour transparency)
Jet computer - aircraft
A view of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York, United States taken from the bulk carrier Wilkawa (1964) (Colour transparency)
A view of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York, United States illuminated at night (Colour transparency)
A slightly distant starboard bow view, taken from wide off the bow, of the Cunard Line cruise ship Samaria (1921) alongside a pier in New York harbour. (Sheet film negative)
A slightly distant starboard bow view, taken from wide off the bow, of the Cunard Line cruise ship Samaria (1921) alongside a pier in New York harbour. (Sheet film negative)
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