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Ship Plans and Technical Records - Admiralty Collections
Ship Plans and Technical Records - Admiralty Collections
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Binnacle and liquid compass
Boat badge
Cap ribbon
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: ribbon, cap
Deck, Quarter & Forecastle
Design, Half block model
documentary artifact: photonegative, glass
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, quarter & forecastle
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper
documentary artifact: ship plan: frame
documentary artifact: ship plan: lines
documentary artifact: ship plan: lines & profile
documentary artifact: ship plan: platform(fore & after)
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Sheet film negative
surveying & navigational t&e: binnacle(liquid compass)
Technical drawing
Upper deck plan
water transport: fighting vessel: 5th rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 6th rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 6th rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 28 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 28 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 44 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, 2nd Class
water transport: model, design: block model(half)
water transport: sailing vessel: barquentine
water transport: service vessel: tug
water transport accessory: badge, boat
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Ackermann, Rudolph
Day & Haghe
Hawkins, George
HM Admiralty
Kelvin & Hughes Ltd
Lacey, Henry
London, Midland & Scottish Railway Company
Marine Photo Service
Prins, van Freslong
Prins, van Treslong
Pritchett, T.
Robson, G.
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White, William Henry
Williams, W.
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Nassau
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Aeolus (1891)
Alligator (1821)
Andromache (1890)
Apollo (1891)
Assurance (1747)
Blanch-Eva (1925)
Brilliant (1891)
Crocodile 1825
Crown (1747)
Daphne (cancelled 1832)
Despatch (1875)
Expedition (1747)
Hohenzollern (1892)
Humber (1748)
Indefatigable (1891)
Intrepid (1891)
Iphigenia (1891)
Iris fl.1809 (French, captured)
J S Sterry (1881)
J S Sterry 1881
Latona (1890)
Mars (1896)
Melampus (1890)
Merrythought 1895
Naiad (1890)
Nimrod 1827
North Star 1824
Pennsylvania Rainbow (1978)
Penzance 1747
Pique (1890)
Porcupine 1819
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Rainbow (1747)
Rainbow (1806)
Rainbow (1823)
Rainbow (1837)
Rainbow (1864)
Rainbow (1891)
Rainbow (1898)
Rainbow (1930)
Rainbow (fl. 1930)
Rainbow 1864
Rainbow 1891 (RCN)
Rainbow Warrior (1955)
Ranger 1820
Rattlesnake 1822
Resolute (1877)
Retribution (1891)
Samarang (1822)
Sappho (1891)
Scylla (1891)
Sirius (1890)
Spartan (1891)
Success (1825)
Sybille (1890)
Termagant (1822)
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Tribune (1891)
Tweed (1823)
Vernie C (fl. 1930)
Woolwich 1749
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Shoei Kaiun K K
Sterry, J. S.
White, William Henry
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HMCS Rainbow cap ribbon (Cap ribbon)
Rainbow (1891) (Negative)
Rainbow (1891) (Negative)
Apollo class second class protected cruisers (Technical drawing)
Despatch (1875); Rainbow (1864); Resolute (1877); J S Sterry (1881); Lowestoft, Suffolk (Historic Photographic Negative)
Deck, Quarter & Forecastle
Lower deck plan
Upper deck plan
Penzance (1747); Assurance (1747); Expedition (1747); Crown (1747); Rainbow (1747); Humber (1747); Woolwich (1747) (Technical drawing)
Iron Steamer Rainbow (Drawing)
Niemen (1820), Ranger (1820), Tweed (1823), Rainbow (1823), Rattlesnake (1822),North Star (1820), Talbot (1824), Daphne (cancelled 1832), Porcupine (cancelled 1832), Nimrod (1828) – ex Andromache, Alarm (cancelled 1826) (Technical drawing)
Ranger (1820), Tweed (1823), Rainbow (1823), Rattlesnake (1822), Crocodile (1825), Alligator (1821), Samarang (1822), Herald (1822) - ex Termagant, North Star (1820), Success (1825), Talbot (1824), Daphne (cancelled 1832), Porcupine (cancelled 1832), Nimrod (1828) – ex Andromache, Alarm (cancelled 1826) (Technical drawing)
Rainbow (1891) (Negative)
To the Chairman and Directors of the general Steam Navigation Company This Print of their Splendid Iron Steam Ship the Rainbow (off the City of Antwerp)... dedicated by Henry Lacey (Print)
The Winner. Merrythought 73 tons 1895, off Helgoland 25 June 1898 (Drawing)
Pennsylvania Rainbow (1978) (Historic Photographic Negative)
A Famous Sea Fight between Captain Ward and the Rainbow (Print)
Platform
Lines & Profile
Rainbow (1747) (Technical drawing)
Rainbow (1747) (Technical drawing)
Rainbow (1891) (Negative)
Rainbow (1891) (Negative)
Rainbow (1891) (Negative)
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