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Adams, Edgar Tarry
Airy, George Biddell
Bennett, George
Bird, Henry P.
Broughton, Alfred Edward
Cherry, E.
Daniela Corda
Davis, John Scarlett
D Badcock (Marine) Ltd
Evans, Joseph Edward
Fisher, Alexander
George Konig
Greenwich Hospital School Boys
Greenwich Instruments Ltd
Greenwich Workshop for the Blind
Grierson, Alec R.
HM Dockyard, Woolwich
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Hudson, J
Jones, Calvert Richard
Loveless, B J
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Penn, J, Ltd
Ransomes & May
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Submarine Cables Ltd
Talbot, William Henry Fox
Toddy, Benjamin
Turner, George
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Wettern, Desmond Robert French
White, Christopher
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Woolwich Dockyard, Woolwich, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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American War of Independence, 1775-1783
American War of Independence: Battle of the Saints, 1782
Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876
Botany Bay Expedition: Second Fleet, 1789
Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War, 1808-1814
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C. F. F. T. 1 (1942)
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Caxton (1958)
Cutty Sark (1869)
Edgar (1779)
Ethel Ada (1903)
Guardian (1784)
John W Mackay (1922)
Monarch (1888)
Princess Caroline (captured 1780)
Reminder (1929)
Sandwich (1759)
Sep (1938)
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Zbik (1959)
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Alexander Hall & Co Ltd
Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co Ltd
Chatfield, Henry
Drummond, Robert
Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd
Parr, Alfred Arthur Chase
Roome, John
Turner, George
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Halley's Comet - Winter 1985-86. (Etching with aquatint)
Set, Drawing Instrument
Hand collet
A port bow view of the tea clipper Cutty Sark (1869) in drydock in Greenwich, London (Colour transparency)
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'Bellona', 74 guns, in the Channel with a Dutch prize, early 1781 (Drawing)
The storeship 'Guardian' in the Channel, travelling to Botany Bay, summer 1789 (Drawing)
'Valiant', 74 guns, on a cruise in the Bay of Biscay (Drawing)
Greenwich Pensioner John Rome [Roome], Seaman (Carte de Visite)
Greenwich Pensioner John Rome [Roome], Seaman (Carte de visite)
Two Greenwich Pensioners with a female companion beside Rysbrack’s statue of George II. (Calotype negative)
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