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documentary artifact: ship plan: deck
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, quarter & forecastle
documentary artifact: ship plan: lines & profile
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documentary artifact: ship plan: roundhouse
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, midship
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water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate
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British School, 18th century
Byrne, W
Dodd, Robert
Fairburn, John
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Jukes, Francis
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Preservation of Cpt Inglefield, the Master, and Ten of the Crew of the Centaur in the Pinnace... on the Great Western Ocean, and after seventeen days at sea, arrived at Fayal (Print)
Plate IV. A View of the Sea on the Morning after the Storm, with the distressed situation of the Centaur, Ville de Paris and the Glorieux as seen from the Lady Juliana, the Ville de Paris passing to Windward under close reef'd Topsails (Print)
Loss of the Centaur 74 Guns, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (Print)
Portraits of the Officers and Men who were preserv'd from the Wreck of the Centaur (Print)
The Battle of the Saints, 12 April 1782 - the close of the action (Print)
Centaur (captured 1759) (Technical drawing)
Centaur (captured 1759) (Technical drawing)
Centaur (captured 1759) (Technical drawing)
HMS Centaur chasing the Vaillant and Amethyste, January 1760 (Painting)
The second cruize of his Majesties ship Centaur off Cape Francois, in the West Indies. Frontispiece to book the second (Drawing)
Distress Of the Centaur on the Night of the 16th of Septr, 1782... passage from Jamaica... storm... foundered Twelve persons only escaping from the Wreck (Print)
Loss of the Centaur 74 Guns, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (Print)
The Wreck of the Centaur 74 Guns, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. September 23 1782 shewing the Pinnace with Capt Inglefield, The Master, and Ten of the Crew leaving the Wreck (Print)
Portraits of the Officers and Men who were preserv'd from the Wreck of the Centaur (Print)
The Battle of the Saints, 12 April 1782 - the close of the action (Print)
Preservation. Cpt Inglefield the Master and Ten of the Crew of the Centaur, in the Pinnace...after being seventeen days at sea arrived at Fayal... (Print)
Portraits of the Officers and Men who were preserv'd from the Wreck of the Centaur, VIZ Captain J N Inglefield, Mr Thos Rainy Master, Mr Robt Bayles Midshipman... (Print)
The Defeat of a French Squadron, Commanded by Monsr. de la Clue, off Cape Lagos, on the 18th of August 1759 by a Squadron of his Majestys Ships under the Command of the Rt Honble Edwd Boscawen Admiral of the Blue (Print)
Centaur (captured 1759) (Technical drawing)
Centaur (captured 1759) (Technical drawing)
Centaur (captured 1759) (Technical drawing)
The Battle of Lagos, 18 August 1759 (Painting)
This Representation of the distressful situation of His Majesty's Ship the Centaur on the Night of the 16th Sept 1782 (Print)
The Defeat of a French Squadron Commanded by Monsr de la Clue, off Cape Lagos, on 18 of August 1759 by a squadron of His Majesty's Ships... (Print)
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