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Colour transparency
documentary artifact: model, ethnographic boat
documentary artifact: photograph
documentary artifact: ship plan: body
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, bridges
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, forecastle
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper
documentary artifact: ship plan: hold
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard
documentary artifact: ship plan: rig, profile
documentary artifact: ship plan: sail
documentary artifact: ship plan: sheer
documentary artifact: ship plan: shell expansion
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lighting device: torch
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shell expansion
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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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Taku (1898)
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Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham
Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd
Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport
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Hockaday, W. T.
Munday, Rodney Hastings John
West, D.
Yarrow & Company Limited
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HMS Tamar (1863) anchored at Hong Kong (Glass plate negative)
'Raising Dredger, Hong Kong January 1901' (Glass plate negative)
'Raising Dredger, Hong Kong January 1901' (Glass plate negative)
Queen Victoria's Statue, Hong Kong (Glass plate negative)
'A four man chair, Hong Kong February 1901' (Glass plate negative)
HMS Taku (1898) dressed overall for Christmas (Glass plate negative)
'Interior of a junk, Hong Kong, February 1901' (Glass plate negative)
Photograph mounted in a circular wooden frame, Rodney Hastings John Munday (Photograph)
View of Hong Kong cricket ground (Glass plate negative)
Chinese men carting Government stores, Hong Kong (Glass plate negative)
A view along the starboard side of the upper deck of HMS Waterwitch (1893) (Glass plate negative)
'P. Scott raising the dredger Canton River, Hong Kong' (Glass plate negative)
Sampans at Hong Kong (Glass plate negative)
A street scene in Queen's Road, Hong Kong (Glass plate negative)
The burnt out wreck of the school cruise ship Seawise University (1940) capsized in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. (Roll film negative)
The burnt out wreck of the school cruise ship Seawise University (1940) capsized in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. (Roll film negative)
On board a Royal Navy Ton class patrol vessel approaching the basin of HMS Tamar on Hong Kong Island (Roll film negative)
Two junks under sail in Hong Kong coastal waters (Roll film negative)
A slightly distant port side view of two local junks under sail while fishing in Hong Kong coastal waters (Roll film negative)
On board a Royal Navy Ton class patrol vessel in the coastal waters around Hong Kong. (Roll film negative)
A distant view of the Kwai Chung container terminal in the New Territories on the north side of Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. (Roll film negative)
A starboard beam view of the general cargo ship Flores Sea (1964) alongside a wharf in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong (Roll film negative)
A distant view of a number of local junks under sail in Hong Kong coastal waters (Roll film negative)
The burnt out wreck of the school cruise ship Seawise University (1940) capsized in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. (Roll film negative)
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