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armament, ethnographic: dao
armour, general arrangement
Cap ribbon
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: ribbon, cap
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Dao
Design, Half block model
documentary artifact: photonegative, film
documentary artifact: ship plan
documentary artifact: ship plan: armour, general arrangement
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water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer (HMS)
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water transport: fighting vessel: gunvessel, composite (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunvessel, wood (HMS)
water transport: model, design: block model(decked: half)
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Ackermann, Rudolph
Barnaby, Nathaniel
Bell, Edgar
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Day & Haghe
Dutton, Thomas Goldsworthy
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Grierson, Alec R.
Harris, Douglas D.
Haulbowline
Hawkins, George
Hinton, A.
J. & G. Thomson & Co
John Brown & Company Ltd
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Vernon, H. John
Weston, Derek Richard
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Haulbowline island, Cork, Republic of Ireland
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British Adventure (1951)
British Architect (1958)
British Bugler (1945)
British Defender (1950)
British Enterprise (1946)
British Fortune (1930)
British Freedom (1950)
British Glory (1957)
British Gratitude (1942)
British Grenadier (1922)
British Grenadier 1963
British Isles (1947)
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British Pluck (1928)
British Prestige (1962)
British Queen (1959)
British Resource (1931)
British Security (1948)
British Tommy (1921)
Flying Kestrel (1913)
Flying Kestrel (1943)
Frolic (1872)
Gladstone (1916)
Kenley (1958)
Kestrel (1872)
Kestrel (1898)
Kestrel (1955)
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Kestrel 1830 [RYS]
Kestrel 1846 [HMS]
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Ready (1872)
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BP Tanker Co Ltd
Cammell Laird & Co Ltd
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Poole, Claudius Scruton
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HMS Frolic (1872); HMS Rifleman (1872); HMS Ready (1872); HMS Kestrel (1872); Warship; Gun vessel (Half block model; Plating model)
The Commodore Returning the Salute of the Thames Fleet (Print)
Kestrel R.Y.S (Drawing)
The passenger liner Mauretania (1939) leaving Berth 46 in the Ocean Dock, Southampton, Hampshire, with the tugs Flying Kestrel (1943) and Sir Bevois (1953). (Negative)
B. P. Protector [ex-Zurmand] (1938) (Technical drawing)
section, midship
shell expansion
section
armour, general arrangement
general arrangement
Inboard profile plan
Cap ribbon
A starboard quarter view of the J. P. Knight motor tugs Kestrel (1955) and Kenley (1958) at moorings in Stangate Creek, River Medway. (Colour transparency)
A starboard quarter view of the J. P. Knight motor tugs Kestrel (1955) and Kenley (1958) at moorings in Stangate Creek, River Medway. (Colour transparency)
The Kestrel R.Y.S. Signalling (Print)
The Kestrel R.Y.S. The property of the late Earl of Yarborough (shows yachts Flirt, Xarifa, Camilla and Pearl) (Print)
Nautical Sketches No.1. Kestrel R.Y.S. Commodore the Earl of Yarborough (Print)
To the Right Honble The Earl of Yarborough, Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron.... His Yacht Kestrel (Print)
The Commodore Returning the Salute of the Thames Fleet (on board Kestrel?) (Print)
The passenger liner Mauretania (1939) leaving Berth 46 in the Ocean Dock, Southampton, Hampshire, with the tug Flying Kestrel (1943). (Negative)
British Kestrel (1962) (Negative)
British Kestrel (1962) (Negative)
British Kestrel (1962) (Negative)
British Kestrel (1962) (Negative)
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