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Astrolabes and quadrants
Celestial navigation
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astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic(originally achromatic, concave element missing)
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic(triple achromatic)
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic signalman's
elescope
Naval telescope
Naval telescope eyepiece cap
Naval telescope objective lens cap
optical t&e: telescope
refracting telescope
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope
surveying & navigational t&e: telescope, marine
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telescope
visual communication t&e: code, signal
water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 5th rate (HMS) ?
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)
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Display - Polar Worlds Gallery
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Berge, Matthew
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Dobbie McInnes & Clyde Ltd
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Elliott Bros
Frith, Peter
George Lee & Son
Gilbert & Sons
Gregory & Wright
Harris, John
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Hutchinson & Jackson
Mills, Robert
Nairne & Blunt
Nugent, Edmund
Ramsden, Jesse
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Bellerophon (1786)
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Galatea 1794 (possibly Galatea 1810) ?
Royal George (1756)
Sophia of London fl.1806
Sultan (1870)
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North-West Passage
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
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Atkinson, Horatio Nelson
Atkinson, Thomas (master HMS VICTORY)
Atkinson, William George
Back, George
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Cox, William Charles
Cust, Francis P
Cust, W
Fowler, Robert Merrick
Hand, T. H. H.
Harris, William
Hobson, Capt (RN)
Holliday, Michael
Legge, A K
Maitland, Frederick Lewis
Martin, Cornwallis Wykeham
Minet, Isaac
Nelson, Horatio
Nugent, Edmund
Pasco, John
Peel, William
Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh
Reade, Benjamin (Surname could be Peat.
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Scott, Charles Montagu Douglas
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Watts, James Samuel
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