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aerospace transportation equipment: spacecraft
Badge
Clock case
clothing accessory: glove, supergrip offshore yachting
Coat of arms
Colour transparency
commemorative artifact: case, clock
data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: navigator, solar
Design, Half block model
Distance meter
documentary artifact: container terminal
documentary artifact: model, exhibition(scenic)
Full hull model
Full hull model; Rigged model
Glass plate negative
Half block model
personal symbol: badge, Trinity House
personal symbol: crest, Trinity House
Photographic print
Rigged model
Roll film negative
Scenic model
Solar navigator
stove
supergrip offshore yachting
supergrip offshore yachting glove
surveying & navigational t&e: meter, distance
surveying & navigational t&e: meter, distance(prototype)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
Topographical model
water transport: fighting vessel: aircraft carrier, flotilla leader (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (HMS)
water transport: model, design: block model(half)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped)
water transport: motor vessel
water transport: service vessel: lifeboat, multi-chine
water transport accessory: stove
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35mm
acetate positive
beechwood
brass
card (mount)
Cellulose nitrate negative
coating: transfer
cotton
Dibond
digital c-type print
Gelatine dry plate
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metal
metal: alloy
metal: brass
metal: cast iron
metal: iron
metal: silver plate
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Display - Sea Things Gallery
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Adams, Edgar Tarry
Bird, Henry P.
Dunn, G.
Haynes, John R.
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Hooper, Lieutenant Geoffroy William Winsmore
Lawrence, Ian
Minima Industrial Modelmaking
Musto
Navigemus Ltd
Parr, Martin
Portway & Son
R. Hunt & Co Ltd
Smiths Suitall Ltd
Unknown
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Ashdon, Essex, England
Earls Colne, Essex, England
Essex
Essex, England
Essex County
Halstead, Essex, England
Harwich, Essex, England, United Kingdom
Laindon, Essex, England
Lake George
Little Wigborough, Essex
Maldon, Essex, England, United Kingdom
Mistley, Essex, England, United Kingdom
Rowhedge, Essex
Saffron Walden, Essex, England
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Falklands War, 1982
Founding of the Royal Observatory, 1675
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Alacrity (1974)
CK 253 (Fl. 1897)
Dawn (1896)
Edith May (1906)
Edme (1898)
George Smeed (1882)
Hermes (1953)
Kenya Jacaranda (1923)
L 33 (1916) [alternative spelling: L33]
Mohican (1908)
Reminder (1929)
Sheffield 1971
St. Nicholas (1982)
Trilby (1896)
Victoria (1882)
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Flamsteed, Reverend John
Hunter, Alan
Rowhedge Ironworks Ltd
The Corporation of Trinity House
Walton Container Terminals Ltd
Wells, Bob
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Portway Tortoise Stove (stove)
Leigh-on-Sea, Essex (Photographic print)
A port bow view of the paddle oyster dredger Victoria (1882) laid up for sale alongside an Essex river bank. (Glass plate negative)
A slightly distant port broadside view of the Essex oyster smack CK 253 (Fl. 1897) berthed in an Essex river location. (Glass plate negative)
A partial view of the town Maldon, Essex taken from the riverbank at low water on the River Chelmer (Colour transparency)
A view looking forward of the spritisail barge Reminder (1929) under sail (Colour transparency)
A view of five spritsail barges berthed at the quayside in Maldon, Essex (Colour transparency)
A view of the River Orwell taken at sunset (Colour transparency)
A group portrait of Bob Wells, the captain of the spritsail barge Reminder (1929) one male and three female passengers at Mistley, Essex (Colour transparency)
A view of the Jolly Sailor pub in Maldon, Essex (Colour transparency)
A portrait of a woman named Abigial on the spritsail barge Reminder (1929) at Mistley, Essex (Colour transparency)
A view of the River Orwell taken at sunset (Colour transparency)
Port bow views of the spritsail barges Dawn (1890) and Trilby (1896) moored at Maldon, Essex (Colour transparency)
Service vessel; Lifeboat (Half block model)
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