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documentary artifact: ship plan: body
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medal, British: campaign medal: South Africa medal, 1877-1879
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water transport: exploration/research vessel: expedition ship, arctic (HMS)
water transport: exploration/research vessel: exploration vessel
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
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water transport: service vessel: storeship (HMS)
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Adams, George Gammon
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Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876
Mexican–American War, 1846-1848
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Beaumont, Lewis Anthony
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Discovery, Valorous (Drawing)
HMS Discovery Commissioned 15th April 1875, by Captain Henry F Stephenson, with Lewis A Beaumont First-Lieutenant, as second ship in the Expedition to the Arctic Regions under Captain Georges (Print)
HMS Discovery forcing a passage through the ice (Drawing)
Discovery at sea (Drawing)
Rough copy of a tracing, lent me in December 1931 by Dr Stanley Kemp showing the 'Discovery's' track over the charted posn. of Thompson I.. 0=Fix. Shaded area indicates visibillity. R. Gould 23.12.31 (Chart; Manuscript)
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