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water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 16 gun
water transport: service vessel: tug, rescue (HMRT)
water transport: service vessel: tug, rescue (HMS)
water transport: service vessel: tug, rescue (HMT)
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A port broadside view of the Devitt & Moore general cargo and cadet training ship Hesperus (1873) at moorings in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. (Glass plate negative)
Hesperus 1777 tons built (about) 1880. C L M -1898-99 1 voyage to Melbourne (copied from a photograph) (Drawing)
China east coast Amoy Harbours and approaches by Captns. Kellet & Collinson, R.N. C.B. 1843. Additions by A.F. Boxer, comg. H.M.St.S. Hesper, 1862 (Chart; Print)
Cormorant class (1793), and modified Cormorant class (1805) (Technical drawing)
Hornet (1794), Cormorant (1794), Favourite (1794), Lynx (1794), Hazard (1794), Lark (1794), and Stork (1796) (Technical drawing)
Cormorant class (1793) and Rosamond Class (1805), both 16-gun Ship Sloops, later Sixth Rates. (Technical drawing)
Cormorant class (1793), and modified Cormorant class (1805) (Technical drawing)
Hesperus (1873) (Glass plate negative)
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Contract for Cormorant Class (1794-1809) (Manuscript)
Hesperus (Fl.Ca.1911)
Clipper Ship Hesperus... Messrs Anderson Anderson & Co Owners... & Messrs Robert Steele & Co, Builders, Greenock (Print)
Hesperia (1946) (Negative)
Hesperides (1946) (Negative)
Hesperides (1946) (Negative)
Hesperides (1946) (Negative)
Hesperia (1946) (Negative)
Hesperus (1939) (Negative)
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