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documentary artifact: model, ethnographic boat
documentary artifact: photograph
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documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper
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water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, escort (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, steel (HMS)
water transport: fishing vessel (China)
water transport: fishing vessel: sampan, fishing (South China)
white shoe
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Dockyard, Hong Kong
HM Admiralty
Hockaday, W. T.
Jones, Kenneth Hurlstone
Marine Photo Service
Photowork Ltd
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Sing, H K ?
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Waters, David Watkin
Wettern, Desmond Robert French
Yarrow & Company Limited
Yera, H
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Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham
Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd
Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport
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West, D.
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A single masted junk under sail in Victoria Harbour off Kowloon, Hong Kong (Sheet film negative)
A junk under sail in Victoria harbour, Hong Kong. (Sheet film negative)
Sampans and a small junk in a bay on Hong Kong Island (Sheet film negative)
Hong Kong, Victoria Harbour and Kowloon. (Sheet film negative)
Sampans and small junks in Aberdeen harbour, Hong Kong (Sheet film negative)
A single masted junk under sail off Hong Kong (Sheet film negative)
A number of sampans berthed alongside in Aberdeen harbour, Hong Kong. (Sheet film negative)
Sampans and small junks in Aberdeen harbour, Hong Kong (Sheet film negative)
Shoe
A British sailor and a Sikh man standing to attention (Photographic print)
SHIP No 721 & 722 H.M. GATE VESSELS "ALDGATE" & "WATERGATE" (1934) MIDSHIP SECTION (Technical drawing)
R.F.A. "APPLELEAF" (1918) DOCKING PLAN - FLY TO (Technical drawing)
SHIP No 721 & 722 H.M. GATE VESSELS "ALDGATE" & "WATERGATE" (1934) GENERAL ARRANGEMENT (AS FITTED) (Technical drawing)
Cossack (1944) (Technical drawing)
H.M.S. "BARBAIN" (1940) LOWER DECK & HOLD (AS FITTED) (Technical drawing)
H.M.S. "BARBAIN" (1940) UPPER DECK & BRIDGE (AS FITTED) (Technical drawing)
Black Swan (1939) (Technical drawing)
shell expansion
Algerine (1895) (Technical drawing)
Set Square
'Ah Hing. Mess Sampan, HMS Waterwitch 1901'. (Glass plate negative)
A slightly distant starboard bow view of a Canton salt junk anchored at Hong Kong (Rolled film negative)
Inside the hull of a Hong Kong fisher d.w. type junk under construction at Hong Kong (Rolled film negative)
On board an Aberdeen fisher d.w. type junk berthed at Hong Kong (Rolled film negative)
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