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commemorative artifact: memorial card
commemorative artifact: plaque
Compass binnacle
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Design, Half block model
documentary artifact: ship plan: body
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, hurricane
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, main
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, orlop
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper
documentary artifact: ship plan: hold
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard
documentary artifact: ship plan: sail
documentary artifact: ship plan: section
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, midship
documentary artifact: ship plan: sheer
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relic, ship: timber
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rope
surveying & navigational t&e: binnacle, compass
Technical drawing
Technical drawingeck, hurricane
Timber
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship, turret (masted: HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: turret ship
water transport: fighting vessel: turret ship (HMS)
water transport: model, design: block model(half)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped)
water transport: service vessel: gig, life (30ft)
water transport: steam vessel: gig, 30ft life
water transport: steam vessel: screw
water transport accessory: rope(fragments)
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Atkins, Harry Joseph
Coles, Cowper D.
Currie, H. M.
Domenico
Dutton, Thomas Goldsworthy
Everett, (Herbert Barnard) John
Griffin & Co
Italian School, 19th century
John B. Day, John B
Laird Brothers
Mitchell, William Frederick
Owen, W.
United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)
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Portsmouth Dockyard
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Captain (1869)
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HMS
Hume, Edward Plantagenet
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H.M.S. Captain Double Turret & Double Screw Ironclad, Captain H.T. Burgoyne V.C... turned bottom upwards in a Gale, and sank in three minutes in the Bay of Biscay on the 7th of Septr 1870 (Print)
H.M. Twin Screw Turret Ship Captain (Print)
H.M.S. Captain (Print)
The Wreck of the Captain 1870 (Drawing)
1870. HMS Captain Iron turret ship... (Drawing)
Captain (1869) (Negative)
H.M.S. 'Captain' memorial card (Memorial card)
rope
Captain (1869) (Negative)
Captain (1869) (Technical drawing)
Technical drawing
Technical drawing
Technical drawing
Captain (1869) (Technical drawing)
Captain (1869) (Technical drawing)
Technical drawing
Captain (1869) (Technical drawing)
Technical drawing
Captain (1869) (Technical drawing)
Profile
Captain (1869) (Technical drawing)
The turret ship HMS ‘Captain’ (Painting)
Compass binnacle
HMS Captain (1869); Warship; Turret ship (Half block model)
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