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documentary artifact: ship plan: armour, general arrangement
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water transport: fighting vessel: 40 gun ship (HMS)
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HMS Defence (Drawing)
The British Channel Fleet In a Gale off Vigo, December 7th 1876. Resistance. Minotaur. Black Prince. Defence (Print)
H.M.S. Defence No.12 (Drawing)
Defence (1861) (Negative)
The Channel Squadron off Syracuse and Mount Etna, Isle of Sicily, May 7th 1879, Invincible, u\Shannon, Defence, Minotaur (Print)
Warrior (1860), Black Prince (1861), Agincourt (1865), Minotaur (1863), Northumberland (1866), Royal Oak (1860), Royal Alfred (1864), Prince Consort (1862), Caledonia (1862), Ocean (1863), Achilles (1863), Hector (1862), Valiant (1863), Defence (1861) and Resistance (1861) (Technical drawing)
Agincourt [ex-Captain] (1865), Minotaur [ex-Elephant](1865), Northumberland (1866), Achilles (1863), Royal Oak (1862), Warrior (1860), Defence (1861), Resistance (1861), Hector (1862) and Valiant (1863) (technical drawing)
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Sail assisted steam vessel HMS Defence (before letters and with manuscript notes for printer) (Print)
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