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Cap ribbon
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: ribbon, cap
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documentary artifact: ship plan: deck
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, gun
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, orlop
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, platform
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, quarter & forecastle
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water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 64 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: ram, torpedo
water transport: fighting vessel: ram, torpedo (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 1st class paddle (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, paddle
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, paddle (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: torpedo ram
water transport: model, design: block model(decked: half)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: scenic)
water transport: model, exhibition: waterline model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails set: sails furled: scenic)
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Esposito, Gaetano
HM Admiralty
Symonds, William
Thomson, W. Mackenzie
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William Haines, William
Wyllie, William Lionel
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Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
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Spartiate 1795
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HM Dockyard, Chatham
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Simpson, T B
Williams, John
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Intrepid/Magnanime class (1765) [too long to list all the ships of the class]. (Technical drawing)
Polyphemus (1782) (Technical drawing)
HMS Polyphemus (Figurehead)
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