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What is the Merchant Navy?
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Night sky highlights - September 2026
Spot Neptune through a telescope, see the Moon in the Beehive Cluster, and mark the autumnal equinox and equilux.
Making Waves: Dr Dawn Wright
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astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic
Boat's compass
Carafe
Coat of arms
coat of arms, royal
Currency balance
documentary artifact: plaque
Fireback
food service t&e: carafe
food service t&e: rations: can, potato(part)
furniture accessory: fireback
lifebelt
lifesaving t&e: lifebelt
Naval crown
Naval crown fragment
original art: picture, silk
personal symbol: coat of arms, royal
personal symbol: coat of arms, royal (1816-1837)
personal symbol: coat of arms, royal (post 1837)
personal symbol: coat of arms, royal(Victorian)
personal symbol: coat of arms, royal (William & Mary)
personal symbol: seal
picture, silk
Pivoted brass projection
Plaque
presentation artifact: tankard
Quintant
Rangefinder telescope
Royal coat of arms
Seal
Set of fireplace equipment
Sextant
Silk picture
Sounding machine
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, boat's
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: machine, sounding
surveying & navigational t&e: instruments, scientific
surveying & navigational t&e: pivoted brass projection
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
Tankard
Telescope
Tin
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, armoured
water transport: recreation vessel: barge, royal (Prince Frederick's)
water transport: sailing vessel
water transport: training vessel
water transport accessory: badge
weights & measures t&e: balance, currency
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brass
canvas
copper
earthenware
gilt
glass
metal: alloy, copper
metal: brass
metal: brass ?
metal: bronze ?
metal: iron
metal: iron ?
metal: silver
metal: steel
newspaper
organic: canvas
organic: cork
organic: silk
paint
paper
silk
silver
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wood: mahogany
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Display - Polar Worlds Gallery
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A. Walker & Son
D. & H. Edwards & Co.
Dickman, J.
Dollond & Aitchison
Farren, Thomas
Potter, John Dennett
Smith, Charles
Ton & Co
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Watkins, William
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Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880
World War I, 1914-1918
World War I: Battle of Coronel, 1914
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Britannia (1820)
Captain (1743)
Conway (1839)
Great Britain (1843)
Undaunted (1886)
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Death in the ice: the shocking story of Franklin's final voyage
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Barton
Coulson family
HM Dockyard, Sheerness
Holland, John
Neale, Henry
Royal Greenwich Observatory
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Set of fireplace equipment
Royal coat of arms (reversed) from Prince Frederick's barge, 1732 (coat of arms, royal)
Seal
Carafe
The top of a preserved potato tin (Tin)
Naval crown fragment
Plaque
Pivoted brass projection
lifebelt
Fireback
Rangefinder telescope
Royal coat of arms of Queen Victoria, from HMS 'Conway' (Coat of arms)
Boat's compass
Silk picture
Silk picture
Naval crown
Coat of Arms from HMS Britannia (Coat of arms)
Currency balance
Sounding machine
Sextant
Quintant
Silver commemoration tankard (Tankard)
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