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water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate
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water transport: fighting vessel: 64 gun ship
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water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 14 gun
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Abbott, Lemuel Francis
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Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
Benoist
Benoist, Guillaume Philippe
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Stratford, J.
Swaine, Francis
Theus, Jeremiah
Thomas Cadell & William Davies
Tillemans, Pieter
Toms
Tookey, James
unidentified
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Vaillant, Paul
Vanderlyn, John
Vertue, George
Victor Florence Pollet, Victor Florence
Vinkeles, Reinier
Ward, James
Ward, William
Watkins & Smith
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American War of Independence: Siege of Gibraltar, 1779
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Duc d'Anville expedition, 1746
Exploration: Cook's Third Voyage, 1776
First Carnatic War: Action off Nagapatam, 1746
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798
Landing of the Young Pretender in Scotland, 1745
Rescue of Charles Stewart, 1746
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Hound (1745)
Kent (1746)
Lichfield (1746)
Lightning (1755)
Lion 1709
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Maidstone (1744)
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Medway (1755)
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Nightingale 1746
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Notre Dame de Deliverence fl.1745
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Nottingham 1703 [British navy]
Nuestra Senora de Cavadonga (1731)
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Orford (1749)
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Abercromby, Ralph
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Norwich (1745); Lichfield (
1746
) [alternative spelling: Litchfield]; Colchester (
1746
); Salisbury (
1746
Grampus (
1746
), Saltash (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
Centaur (
1746
); Deal Castle (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
Centaur (
1746
); Deal Castle (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
Centaur (
1746
); Deal Castle (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
Centaur (
1746
); Deal Castle (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
Centaur (
1746
); Deal Castle (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
Lichfield (
1746
) [alternative spelling: Litchfield]; Colchester (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
); Chester (1744); Winchester (1744); Portland (1744); Gloucester (1745); Maidstone (1744); Advice (
1746
Panther (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
); Chester (1744); Winchester (1744); Portland (1744); Gloucester (1745); Maidstone (1744); Advice (
1746
'Kent' (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
Grampus (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
Grampus (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
Grampus (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
Grampus (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
Centaur (1764); Deal Castle (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
Panther (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
Nightingale (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
Nightingale (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
Bristol (
1746
); Rochester (1749) (Technical drawing)
Seal of the Netherlands Admiralty, circa
1746
(Seal cast)
Sir Roger Curtis (
1746
-1816) (Miniature)
Tilbury (1745); Bristol (
1746
) (Technical drawing)
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