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copper, fragment
Copper sheathing
Copper Sheathing
Copper sheathing nail
Copper sheathing [fragment]
copper [fragment]
documentary artifact: ship plan: sheathing, copper
documentary artifact: ship plan: sheathing, lead
relic, ship: copper fragment
relic, ship: sheathing, copper
relic, ship: sheathing, copper(fragment)
relic, ship: sheathing, copper(keel)
sheathing
sheathing, copper
Technical drawing
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 5th rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 6th rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 28 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 74 gun ship
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
water transport accessory: sheathing, copper
water transport accessory: sheathing, copper(part)
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black ink
blue colourwash
brass alloy of copper, zinc and iron
cardboard
copper
green ink
metal: copper
paper
pencil
pink colourwash
rolled. Originally gold, due to dezincification colour: black white brown, orange, green, gold
yellow colourwash
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Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery
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Gormully, J.
Muntz Metal Co Ltd
Unknown
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Deptford Dockyard
French Walls
Kingston-Upon-Hull
Plymouth Dockyard
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Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Belcher, 1852-1854
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Bounty (purchased 1787)
Breadalbane (1843)
Culloden (1776)
Cutty Sark (1869)
Imogene (1831)
Marlborough (1767)
Saturn (1786)
Thetis (1817)
Winchester (1822)
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Blackett, J P
Correa de Araujo, Piedro
Fairbrother, F S
Fawckner, William Henry
Lacerda, M H Cavalcanti de
Marden, Luis
Mr Moverley
South Kensington Museum
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H.M.S. 'Saturn' copper sheathing (Copper sheathing)
H.M.S. 'Culloden' copper sheathing (Copper sheathing)
muntz metal (sheathing)
H.M. Armed Vessel 'Bounty' sheet copper (Copper sheathing)
Copper sheathing from H.M.S. 'Bounty' (Copper sheathing)
Winchester (1822) (sheathing, copper)
Copper Sheathing
Marlborough (1767) (Technical drawing)
Copper sheathing fragment (Copper sheathing [fragment])
H.M.S. 'Thetis' copper sheathing (Copper sheathing)
H.M. Armed Vessel 'Bounty' copper sheathing (Copper sheathing)
Imogene (1831) (Technical drawing)
Copper sheathing nail
Copper sheathing
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