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Beat scale
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clothing, outerwear: uniform: uniform, Officer's
clothing accessory: uniform: uniform, Sub-Lieutenant's (or Lieutenant)
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: scales
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Assistant Paymaster's
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Clerk in Charge's
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Commissioned Warrant Officer's
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Mate's
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Sergeant's
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Sub-Lieutenant's
Coin scales
documentary artifact: ship plan: displacement scale
drafting t&e: scale, measuring
Drawing and indicator diagram scales
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Fathom scale for depth sounder
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Rangefinder telescope objective lens cap
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surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: scale, fathom(vin H)
surveying & navigational t&e: scale, gunters
surveying & navigational t&e: scales, gunter's
surveying & navigational t&e: scales, gunter's: chart rule
Technical drawing
Timing weights
Transit level scale
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
water transport: recreation vessel: yacht
water transport: sailing vessel: schooner
water transport accessory: badge, boat
water transport accessory: scale, sounding machine
weights & measures t&e: computing instrument: plain scale
weights & measures t&e: scale, sizing(for measuring wooden planks or a shoemakers measure.)
weights & measures t&e: scale, weighing
weights & measures t&e: scales
woodworking t&e: scale(shipwrights)
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Ackermann, Rudolph
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Elder, James Wyld the
Fedchenko
Fraser & Davis
Gieves & Hawkes Ltd
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Linney
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Matthews & Company
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Alacrity (1900)
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Chakdina (1951)
Lady of St Kilda fl.1837
Stirling Castle 1679
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Umpire (1917)
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Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
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Acland, Thomas Dyke
Barker, A. Derek
Bonaparte, Napoleon
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Jones, Ralph William Inigo
Le Goyt, M V
Limpus, Arthur Henry
Middleton, H. G.
Mrs Gunn
Nelson, Horatio
Pawsey, M J W
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Tipshaft, E
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Official boat badge of HMS Umpire (Boat badge)
Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers uniform: pattern 1873 (Scales)
Rangefinder telescope rotating scales cap
Scales box
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Royal Dockyard Battalion uniform: pattern 1847 (Scales)
Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1901-18 (Scales)
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Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1901 (Scales)
Celestial navigational globe (Celestial navigational globe scale)
Star plotter time scale
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Measuring scale
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