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armament t&e, firearm: gun, submachine
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Boat's liquid compass
Boat's Liquid Compass and Binnacle
Builder's nameplate
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ceremonial artifact: burgee
ceremonial artifact: flag
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data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: computer, jet
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sound communication t&e: gun, signal
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surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, boat's liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, submarine liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
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timekeeper: chronometer, marine
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(2 day)
timekeeping t&e: calendar
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, horizontal
water transport: fighting vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: submarine
water transport: model, design: block model(decked: half)
water transport: service vessel: lifeboat (SS Ocean Viscount)
water transport: steam vessel: screw, twin
water transport accessory: repeater, gyro
woodworking t&e: sawset(shipwrights)
written communication t&e: envelope, airmail
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American Anti-Slavery Society
Annin Flag Co
Auto-Ordnance Corporation
Batori Computer Company Inc
Beck-Lee Corp
Bird, Henry P.
Bromley-Martin, Angela Felicity
Buttersworth, James Edward
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Galbraith & Sons Inc
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New York Bicentennial Celebrations July 1976
Opening of the first Atlantic Telegraph Cable, 1858
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Gripsholm (1925)
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Monarch of Bermuda (1931)
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Ocean Viscount fl.1945
Richard J Barrett (1919)
Samaria (1921)
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Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
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The Niagara, Valorous, Gordon & Agamemnon laying the cable at mid-ocean (Print)
River Jurono Singapore (Print)
Pelorus and stand
Liquid compass and binnacle
Liquid compass and binnacle
Boat's Liquid Compass and Binnacle
Liquid compass and binnacle
Submarine liquid compass and binnacle
Dry card compass
sawset
Jet computer - aircraft
Medal commemorating Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857) (Medal)
Octant box
Medal commemorating Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857) (Medal box lid)
Badge: Military Order of the World Wars (Badge)
Viola (1910) (Technical drawing)
A New Travelling and Commercial Map of the CANADAS from the Sault of St. Marie to the River Saguenay and a large section of the United States of America .... Dedicated by Permission to Commodore Robert Barrie C.B. ... by ... David Taylor RN (Chart)
Slave Market of America (Print)
A starboard bow view of the paddle steamer Alexander Hamilton (1924) moored in New York Harbour. (Colour transparency)
Burgee, Wianno Yacht Club, Osterville, Massachusetts (Burgee)
Burgee, Wianno Yacht Club, Osterville, Massachusetts (Burgee)
The Manhattan skyline at New York. (Sheet film negative)
The Manhattan skyline at New York. (Sheet film negative)
Weehawken and the Hudson River at New York. (Sheet film negative)
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