Skip to main content
Membership
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Royal Museums Greenwich
Main navigation
Menu
Royal Museums Greenwich
Search
Close
Plan your visit
Back
Plan your visit
Tickets and prices
Getting here
Accessibility
Family visits
Group visits
School visits
Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Adult: £22 | Child: £11
Members go free
Free
National Maritime Museum
National Maritime Museum
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Free
Queen's House
Queen's House
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Royal Observatory
Royal Observatory
Open daily 10am-6pm
Last entry 5.15pm
Adult: £24 | Child: £12
Members go free
What's on
Back
What's on
Exhibitions
For families
Member events
Talks and tours
National Maritime Museum
Exhibitions
ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition
See the world's greatest space photography at the National Maritime Museum
Cutty Sark
Events and festivals
Opera at Cutty Sark with Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras
An immersive rendition of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas performed by the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists
National Maritime Museum
Family fun
Astronomers Take Over
This brand-new interactive gallery gives curious minds aged 4 to 104 the space to play, learn and explore!
Stories
Back
Stories
Maritime history
Space and astronomy
Art and culture
The ocean
Time
Royal history
Must-see artworks in the Queen's House
What to look out for in the inspiring new take on the Queen’s House’s displays in 2026
How to see the 12 August 2026 partial solar eclipse
Learn more about the best solar eclipse visible from the UK and Ireland so far this century, when around 90% of the Sun will be covered by the Moon
Making Waves: Dr Dawn Wright
Oceanographer and chief scientist Dr Dawn Wright on diving to the deepest part of the ocean – and why we need to stand up for our blue planet
Collections
Back
Collections
Conservation
Research
Donating items to our collection
Collections Online
Search our online database and explore our objects, paintings, archives and library collections from home
The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre
Come behind the scenes at our state-of-the-art conservation studio
Caird Library
Visit the world's largest maritime library and archive collection at the National Maritime Museum
Learn
Back
Learn
School trips and workshops
Self-guided school visits
Online resources and activities
Booking an on-site schools session
Booking a digital schools session
Young people and youth groups
Support us
Back
Support us
Become a member
Donate
Corporate partnerships
Become a patron
Leave a legacy
Commemoration and celebration
Our sites
Cutty Sark
National Maritime Museum
Queen's House
Royal Observatory
Membership
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Beta
Back to all results
Explore our Collection
Objects
Library
Archive
Search our collection
filters…
Search
Item Category
Select…
Item Category
Item Category
Astronomical and navigational instruments
Astronomical and navigational instruments
Show all
Astrolabes and quadrants
Celestial navigation
Charting instruments
Compasses
Course, speed and distance indicators
Electronic navigation
Globes and globe gores
Meteorological instruments
Optical equipment
Sundials
Telescopes
Apply Filter
Ship Plans and Technical Records - Admiralty Collections
Ship Plans and Technical Records - Admiralty Collections
Show all
Admiralty Ships' Covers
Sailing Navy
Apply Filter
Tools
Tools
Show all
Charting instruments
Apply Filter
Apply Filter
Type
Select…
Type
Type
1st common seal of the town of Folkestone, late 13th century
Anchor model
barrelmaking t&e: oilstone(cooper's)
Brimstone Match
Brimstone matches
building: lighthouse
Case for artificial lodestone
cast: badge cast: Edistone Lighthouse workers
cast: coin cast: token, halfpenny, Folkestone, 1796
cast: seal cast: Folkestone, 1st common seal, late 13C
ceremonial artifact: tombstone
Coin cast
Crook with stone
documentary artifact: ship plan: apparatus
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper
documentary artifact: ship plan: lines
documentary artifact: ship plan: lines & profile
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile(part)
documentary artifact: ship plan: section
Drawing
Equipment model
Equipment model; Anchor model; Half killick
Full hull model
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set
Grave marker
Half killick
Killick stone
lighting device: matches, brimstone (7)
Lines & Profile
Lodestone
Lodestone and keeper
Lodestone stand
Lower deck plan
Medal cast
multiple use artifact: oilstone(shipwrights)
multiple use artifact: slipstone(shipwrights)
multiple use artifact: stone, grinding(shipwrights)
multiple use artifact: stone, slip(shipwrights)
oilstone
oil stone
oil stone fragment
Piece of Livingstone tree
Plank-on-frame
Quernstone
Red sandstone
relic: sandstone, red
Rigged model
Sails set
Seal cast
section
slipstone
Stand
Stand for lodestone
stone
stone, grinding
stone, slip
Stone and wooden crook
surveying & navigational t&e: loadstone
surveying & navigational t&e: lodestone
surveying & navigational t&e: lodestone(artificial magnet)
Technical drawing
Token, halfpenny, Folkestone, 1796
Upper deck plan
water transport: cargo vessel
water transport: fishing vessel: lugger
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails set)
water transport: sailing vessel
water transport: sailing vessel: lugger, Folkstone
water transport: service vessel: stone carrier
water transport accessory: killick
water transport accessory: killick(stone only)
water transport accessory: model, killick
Whetstone
whetstone
Wood
woodworking t&e: stone, grinding(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: whetstone(ropemaker's)
woodworking t&e: whetstone(shipwrights)
Apply Filter
Materials
Select…
Materials
Materials
black ink
blue colourwash
blue ink
box: wood covered with black shark skin and lined with magenta silk
brass
brown colourwash
cork
cotton
inorganic: stone
inorganic: sulphur
iron
ivory
lead
lodestone
Magnetic ore
magnetite
magnetite, silver
metal
metal: brass
metal: iron
metal: lodestone
metal: magnetite rock
metal: silver
metal: steel
metal: unknown
mount: wood
nylon
oil stone
organic: carborundum
organic: sandstone, red
organic: sulphur
paint
paper
papier mache
plaster
plastic
red ink
sharkskin (shagreen)
silver
steel
stone
sulphur
twine
varnish
wood
yellow colourwash
Apply Filter
Display Location
Select…
Display Location
Display Location
Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery
Display - ROG
Not on display
Apply Filter
Creator
Select…
Creator
Creator
Ove Hovalt
Unknown
Apply Filter
Places
Select…
Places
Places
Ascension Island
Canada
England
France
Pitcairn Island
Russia
Scandinavia
The Admiralty
Unknown
Whitehall
Apply Filter
Events
Select…
Events
Events
Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859
Exploration: Cook's First Voyage, 1768
Apply Filter
Vessels
Select…
Vessels
Vessels
Bounty (purchased 1787)
Endeavour (1764)
Fox (1855)
Apply Filter
Exhibition
Select…
Exhibition
Exhibition
Time and Longitude
Apply Filter
People
Select…
People
People
Adams, John
Bellamy, George
Cook, James
Cremer, Mary
Franklin, John
Hobson, William Robert
Huddart, Joseph
Livingstone, David
McClintock, Francis Leopold
Somers, George
Apply Filter
Century
Select…
Century
Century
unknown
Apply Filter
Date Range
Select…
Date Range
Date From
Select...
1545
1595
1645
1685
1695
1701
1715
1735
1745
1770
1785
1799
1807
1811
1812
1813
1829
1840
1873
Date To
Select...
1605
1655
1685
1695
1725
1750
1755
1770
1795
1799
1800
1811
1812
1813
1817
1829
1850
1873
Apply Filter
Show only:
With images
Applied Filters
stone
Clear all
showing 70 objects results
Sort by
Relevance
Object title/name
Object title/name (desc)
Finding reference
Finding reference (desc)
Lodestone
Stone Carrier (no date) (Technical drawing)
Lodestone
Lodestone
Lodestone
Whetstone
A wooden brimstone match (Brimstone Match)
Quernstone
Tree section mounted on plaque (Wood)
Red sandstone (Red sandstone)
whetstone
Lines & Profile
Lodestone and keeper
stone, slip
stone, grinding
oil stone
Fishing vessel; Follkstone lugger (Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set)
Folkestone, first common seal, late 13th century (Seal cast)
Lodestone
Lodestone stand
Lodestone
Lodestone
Lodestone
Lodestone
First
Prev
Page
1
Current page
2
Page
3
Next
Last
Loading filters
Royal Museums Greenwich
Close
Search
Want to search our collection? Search here.
Back to top