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Astronomical and navigational instruments

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3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models

Astrolabes and quadrants

Celestial navigation

Charting instruments

Compasses

Course, speed and distance indicators

Electronic navigation

Globes

Globes and globe gores

Herschel family

Meteorological instruments

Optical equipment

Popular Astronomy

Sundials

Telescopes

Telescopes at the Royal Observatory Greenwich

Telescopes Online Gallery

The Herschels as experimenters

The Herschels as instrument makers

The many faces of the telescope

Charts and maps

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De Gomme collection

Des Barres collection

Duckworth collection

Duff collection

Ericsson collection

Globes

Globes and globe gores

Goodsall collection

Green Blackwall collection - charts

Henry Newton Stevens Atlantic Neptune collection

Hopton Hall collection

Lockyer collection

Loose maps and charts: general collection

Moriarty collection

Northey collection

Penrose collection

Pirelli collection

Portolans and loose charts on vellum

Printed atlases

STC collection

Stokes collection

Westlake collection

Coins and medals

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Coins

Commemorative medals

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

Naval General Service Medal 1793-1840

Orders and medals

Recent acquisitions

The Naval Gold Medal

Fine art

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4. Astronomy and print

Captain George Pechell Mends (circa 1814 – 1871)

Caricatures

Green Blackwall collection

Herschel family

Lieutenant Gabriel Bray (1750–1823)

Maritime Art Greenwich

Michael Graham-Stewart collection

Miniatures

Nicholas Pocock

Oil paintings

Opium Wars

Popular Astronomy

Prints, drawings and watercolours

Recent acquisitions

Sketchbooks and albums

Telescopes Online Gallery

The Herschels as collectors

The Opium Wars

Van de Velde drawings

Polar Equipment and Relics

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Franklin relics

North America

Relics

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Franklin relics

North America

Optical equipment

Ship models

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Cargo vessels

Dockyards, buildings, and topography

Exploration and research vessels

Fishing and hunting vessels

Lifeboats and lifesaving vessels

Passenger vessels

Powered warships

Racing and pleasure craft

Royal yachts and ceremonial craft

Sailing warships

Service vessels

Small craft

Ship Plans

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Admiralty Collection

Merchant Collection

Sailing Navy

Weapons

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Edged weapons

Firearms

Ordnance

Type

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Agincourt (1817)

Album

armament t&e, firearm: rifle, revolving

astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic

astronomical t&e: telescope, reflecting(20ft)

astronomical t&e: telescope component: stand

Azimuth compass

Banner

Bed

belt, sword

Bolt

Book

Boot

Boots

Boots, pair

Bowl

Box

Brochure

building: lighthouse fortress

Bust

Cabinet

Cables

Calendar

Carving

Case

cast: medal cast: commemorative medal

ceremonial artifact: banner

Chain pump

Chart

chronometer, marine

Clay pipe

clothing, footwear: boot(pair)

clothing, footwear: boot, inner(pair of moccasins)

clothing, headwear: hat

clothing, outerwear: smock

clothing, outerwear: trousers

clothing accessory: square, silk

Club

Coat of Arms

Compass

Copper bolt

Copper sheathing

Corkscrew

Crest

Cutlass

Day or night telescope

Deck

Deck, Quarter & Forecastle

Design, Half block model

Dessert spoon

Dip circle

Diving bell model

Document, scantlings

documentary artifact: coin, commemorative engraved

documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial

documentary artifact: photograph

documentary artifact: photonegative, glass

documentary artifact: plaque

documentary artifact: ship plan: cabins

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, gun

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, orlop

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, quarter & forecastle

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper

documentary artifact: ship plan: frame

documentary artifact: ship plan: head

documentary artifact: ship plan: keel

documentary artifact: ship plan: lines

documentary artifact: ship plan: lines & profile

documentary artifact: ship plan: platform(fore & after)

documentary artifact: ship plan: profile

documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard

documentary artifact: ship plan: pump(Truscott's)

documentary artifact: ship plan: sail

documentary artifact: ship plan: scupper

documentary artifact: ship plan: section

documentary artifact: ship plan: section, midship

documentary artifact: ship plan: sheer & profile

documentary artifact: ship plan: stern, circular

documentary artifact: ship plan: trusses

Drawing

Drawinge

Drum

Dry compass

Emerald (1820)

Engraved commemorative coin - sixpence

Equipment model

Eyepiece fragment

Figurehead

Folder

food processing t&e: corkscrew

food service t&e: fork, table

food service t&e: spoon, dessert

food service t&e: spoon, table

Fork

Fragment

Frame

Full hull model

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Lever/handle

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model

Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set

Full hull model; Scenic model

furniture, ship's: mirror

Gallantry award

Glass log

Glass photonegative

Glass plate negative

Gyro-magnetic compass cables

Gyrocompass cables

Half block model

Hat

Historic Photographic Negative

Impregnable (1810)

Inboard profile plan

Inner boot

Inner boot, pair

Inner boots

Instructional, Sectional model

Keel

land transport accessory: harness, sledge(for a man)

land transport accessory: netting, sledge

land transport component: netting, sledge

Lever

Lever/handle

Lifting derrick model

Lines

Lines & Profile

Log glass

Lower deck plan

Mace

Magnifying glass

Manuscript

Manuscript Box

Manuscript box

MAP-SHEET

Marine chronometer

Medal

medal, British: prize medal: Blane medal for Medical Officers'?

Medal cast

Medal medal

Meridional compass

Microscope

Miniature

Miniature painting

Mirror

Mount

Mourning Ring

Navy Board, Full hull model

Negative

optical t&e: glass, magnifying

optical t&e: microscope

Order

original art: bust

original art: painting, miniature

original art: plaque, portrait

original art: print

original art: sculpture: bust

Painting

Pakipaki

personal gear: chest, seaman's

personal gear: glass, reading

personal gear: satchel

personal gear: smoking gear: pipe, clay

personal symbol: coat of arms

personal symbol: crest

Photograph

Photograph album

Plan Chest

Plank-on-frame

Plaque

Pocket chronometer

portrait

Portrait plaque

presentation artifact: box, snuff

presentation artifact: centrepiece, table

presentation artifact: kettle, tea

presentation artifact: salver

Presentation Sword

Prize medal

reading glass

Reflecting Circle

Repeating circle

Revolving rifle

Rigged model

Roll film negative

Sails set

Salver

Satchel

Scabbard

Scenic model

Scimitar

Sea chest

Section

section

section, midship

Sectional model

Sectional model; Waterline model; Stern model

Sextant

Signal flag

Silhouette

Silk square

Sledge harness

Sledge Netting

Sledge netting

Smock

Snuff box

Spoon

square, silk

Stall crest

Stern model

surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass

surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, dry

surveying & navigational t&e: circle, dip

surveying & navigational t&e: circle, reflecting

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, insulated

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, meridional

surveying & navigational t&e: compass, steering

surveying & navigational t&e: glass, log

surveying & navigational t&e: sextant

Sword

Sword belt

Sword protective cover

Table centrepiece

Table globe

Tea kettle

Technical drawing

technical drawing

Telescope

Telescope stand

Telescope tube and mounting

timekeeper: chronometer, pocket

Trousers

Upper deck plan

visual communication t&e: flag, signal

Watercolour

Waterline model

Waterline model; Rigged model; Scenic model

water transport: cargo vessel: clipper, tea

water transport: cargo vessel: East Indiaman

water transport: cargo vessel: merchantman

water transport: cargo vessel: packet (Post Office)

water transport: cargo vessel: paviljoepoon, barge (Netherlands)

water transport: dumb vessel

water transport: exploration/research vessel: survey vessel

water transport: fighting vessel

water transport: fighting vessel (RIM)

water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate (France)

water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 4th rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 5th rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 5th rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 6th rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 6th rate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 10 gun boat

water transport: fighting vessel: 26 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 28 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 28 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 36 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 36-42 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 38 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 44 gun ship (USS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 46 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 46 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 50 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 58 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 62 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 74 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 74 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 80 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 98 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: 100 gun ship (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 120 gun ship

water transport: fighting vessel: brig

water transport: fighting vessel: brig, gun

water transport: fighting vessel: frigate

water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (France)

water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (USS)

water transport: fighting vessel: pirate

water transport: fighting vessel: schooner

water transport: fighting vessel: ship of the line

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 12 gun

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 14 gun

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 18 gun

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, brig

water transport: model, design: block model(half)

water transport: model, diving bell

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails furled)

water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails set: working)

water transport: model, exhibition: waterline model(decked: equipped: rigged)

water transport: model, vessel: full hull model(decked)

water transport: muscle-powered vessel: oar, 6

water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel

water transport: sailing vessel

water transport: sailing vessel: barge, spritsail (Netherlands)

water transport: sailing vessel: barque

water transport: sailing vessel: ship, 3 masted

water transport: service vessel: bell, diving

water transport: service vessel: cruiser, revenue

water transport: service vessel: cutter (16ft)

water transport: service vessel: cutter, revenue

water transport: service vessel: hospital ship

water transport: service vessel: hulk, prison

water transport: service vessel: hulk, sheer

water transport: service vessel: launch

water transport: service vessel: lifeline, raft

water transport: service vessel: lighter

water transport: service vessel: storeship

water transport: service vessel: tender

water transport: service vessel: tender, cutter

water transport: service vessel: yacht

water transport: service vessel: yawl (19ft)

water transport: steam vessel

water transport: steam vessel: steamship

water transport: steam vessel: yacht

water transport: training vessel

water transport: training vessel: training ship (HMS)

water transport: unknown function: ship

water transport: yacht (Netherlands)

water transport: yacht, royal (HMY)

water transport: yacht, Trinity House

water transport accessory: bolt

water transport accessory: bolt, copper(2)

water transport accessory: derrick, lifting

water transport accessory: figurehead(bust)

water transport accessory: keel(part)

water transport accessory: model, lifting derrick

water transport accessory: pump, chain(part)

water transport accessory: sheathing, copper

water transport component: lifting gear

water transport component: model, instructional: sectional model(stern)

water transport component: stern: elliptical

Materials

aluminium?

aquatint

aquatint & etching

aquatint & etching, brown

aquatint & etching, coloured

aquatint, coloured

aquatint, hand-coloured

aquatint, tinted

aquatint with engraving, hand-coloured

black ink

blackprint

blue colourwash

blue colour wash

blued steel

blue ink

board

bone

brass

brass (?)

brass-gilt

bronze

Brown and grey wash over graphite, heightened with white on paper (now light-stained) laid on card

brown colourwash

brown colour wash

brown ink (?) wash

buckram (possibly)

canvas

card

cardboard

cartridge paper

carved

cast

clay

coating: gilt

coating: paint

coating: varnish

Coconut

Coloured aquatint

coloured aquatint

coloured etching

copper

cord

cotton

damascened steel

donkey-skin

drypoint

dyeline

ebony

enamel

engraving

engraving & etching

engraving & etching, coloured

engraving, coloured

engraving, crayon manner

engraving, stipple

etching

Etching

etching, coloured

fabric

fish-skin

frame, plank on

fruitwood

Gelatine dry plate

gilded bronze

gilt

gilt metal

gilt wire

glass

glass, horn/tortoiseshell (?) and silver

gold

gold filigree

gouache

graphite

graphite & wash, grey

graphite & watercolour

gravure?

green colour wash

green ink

green ink (faint)

green ink (very faint)

grey colourwash

grey colour wash

hand-coloured

hand-coloured aquatint

hand sewn

hemp

horn

horn/tortoiseshell

horn/tortoiseshell(?): glass

human hair

ink

Ink (?) wash, heightened with watercolour

inorganic: glass

inorganic: marble

inorganic: mica

iron

ivory

lacquer

lead

lead paint

leather

line block

linen

Linen

linen-backed

lithograph

lithograph, coloured

lithograph, tinted

lizard skin (possibly)

mahogany

marble

mercury

metal

metal-gilt

metal: brass

metal: copper

metal: enamel

metal: gold

metal: silver

metal: steel

metal thread

mezzotint

mezzotint, coloured

mica

mica?

mounted paper

oak

oil on board

oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

Oil on canvas, frame

oil on canvas, laid on board

Oil on canvas marouflaged onto Sundaela board

oil on canvas on board

oil on millboard

oil on panel

organic: paper

organic: textile [ribbon]

paint

painted

paper

Paper

papier mache

parchment

pen & ink, black

pen & ink, brown

pen & ink, red

pen & wash

pen & wash, brown

pencil

pencil, watercolour and scratching out, on paper

pine

planished

plank on frame

plaster

plastic?

plush

Polyester negative

porcelain

red ink

reproduction, colour

ribbon

rivetted

rope

rubber

sheet steel

silk

silver

silver-gilt

silver halide: gelatine

silver wire

skin

steel

steel?

Stipple engraving, hand-coloured

synthetic: glass

tar

textile

textile (canvas?)

tin

toppaper

tracing paper

varnish

vellum

velvet

walrus ivory

wash, grey

watercolour

watercolour, with graphite

wood

wood (probably)

wood, leather

wood: fruit

woodcut, white line

wool

yellow colourwash

yellow colour wash

Display Location

Display - Atlantic Gallery

Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery

Display - Polar Worlds Gallery

Display - QH

Display - ROG

Display - Sea Things Gallery

Display - Traders Gallery

Display - Tudor and Stuart Seafarers Gallery

Display - Voyagers

Not on display

Creator

A., S.

A. Constable & Co

Abbot, Charles

Abbott, Lemuel Francis

Ackermann, Rudolph

Adams, Edgar Tarry

Admiralty Compass Observatory

Akrell

Allen, James Charles

Andrieu, Bertrand

Anonymous

Atkinson, John Augustus

Bailey

Bailey, J.

Baldwin, Cradock & Joy

Barlow, H. B.

Barlow, J

Barlow, Thomas Oldham

Baugean, Jean-Jérôme

Bayfield, Henry Wolsey

Beechey, William

Bennett, W. J.

Beranger, Pierre

Blessley, William

Bligh, William

Blood

Blood, T.

Bone, Henry

Bonington, Richard Parkes

Bourne, J C

Bowles, Charles Oldfield

Boydell, John

British School, 18th century

British School, 19th century

Bromley-Martin, Angela Felicity

Brown, Mather

Browne, Charles W.

Brun, Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le

Brunn, Samuel

Bullock, William

Burkett & Hudson

Burnet, John

Buttersworth, James Edward

Buttersworth, Thomas

Byers, W

C., J.

Callander, Adam

Calvert, M P

Carmichael, John Wilson

Carpenter, Margaret Sarah

Carre, V.

Carver & Gilder

Cattier, de

Chantrey, Francis Legatt

Chappel

Chawner, William

Cheffins, C F

Clark, I.

Clarke, W.

Clay, Thomas

Clint, George

Cluett, William C.

Colburn, Henry

Collin, E.E.

Compass Observatory, Leo Boyce, Admiralty

Conde, John

Coney, John

Cooke, Edward William

Copley Fielding, Anthony Vandyke

Corbould, Richard

Corréard, Alexandre

Cotman, John Sell

Cross, J.

Currier, Nathaniel

Dalrymple, Alexander

Dance, Nathaniel

Daniell, William

Daniell, William [artist, engraver & publisher]; Hurst, Robinson & Co [publishers]

Davies & Bryer

Davis, Benjamin

Davis, Joseph

Davy, Charles

Dawe, Henry Edward

Delarue, Francois

Depot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine

Dexter, Benjamin

Dieterich, F.

Dighton, Richard

Dodd, Robert

Dolberg, Adolf

Dollond & Aitchison

Drummond, Samuel

Dubourg, M.

Dudley

Duncan, Edward

Durlacher

E, M

E. Gambart & Co

Earl

Earle, Augustus

E Brown

Edeling, A. C. J.

Edwin, David

Egan, James

Ellis, Joseph Francis

Elmes, William

Elphinstone, Margaret Mercer

Em. Baerentzen & Co

Emes, John

Emmett, Elizabeth

Emmett, Lydia Field

Evans, John

Evans, William

Fairburn, John

Foley, John Henry

Fontana, Bill

Francia, Francois Louis Thomas

Francis Frith & Co

Fry, Edmund

Fry, William Thomas

Fulton, Robert

Fürst, Moritz

G. Webster, G

Gaffin, T.

Galeazzi, F.

Garneray, Ambrose-Louis

George Webster

Gilbert & Sons

Gold, Joyce

Grayfoot & Overton

Green, Valentine

Gregory, Charles

Grignion, Charles

Grozer, Joseph

Géricault, Jean-Louis André Théodore

Halls, John James

Hancock, John Gregory

Hancocks & Co

Hand, H.

Havell, Daniel

Havell, Robert

Hayward, G.

Hazlitt, John

Heath, William

Henry Bolitho, Henry

Henry Graves & Co

Herschel, Caroline Lucretia

Herschel, John Frederick William

Herschel, William

Hilhouse, George

Hill, Henry Oliver

Hiller, C

HM Admiralty

HM Dockyard, Devonport

Hobday, William Armfield

Hodgetts, Thomas

Holbrook, George

Holmes, James

Hook, Theodore Edward

Horsburgh, James

How, J

Howland

Huggins, James Miller

Huggins, William John

Hull, W. H.

Hullmandel, Charles Joseph

Hurd, Thomas

Irwin Bevan

J. & M. Rippin

J. Deane, R. Adams,

J.F. Runkel, J F

J.N. Lang

Jackson, John

James, H F

Jean, Philippe

Jeffryes, John

Jenkins, J.

Jenkins, James

Jobbins, J. R.

Johann Alexander Herschel

Johnston

Johnston, W. H.

Jones, John

Kempson & Son

Kersill, William

Kirkwood, John

Kirkwood, Robert

Klinckowstrom

L'Eveque, H

L, E

Lackington, Hughes, Harding & Mavor

Lane, E J

Lane, Samuel

Langley & Belch

Laurie, Richard Holmes

Lawrence, Thomas

Legal, Francis

Leggatt Brothers

Lely, Peter

Lency, W S

Leney, William Satchwell

Lewis, W

Lewis, William & Co

Longman & Co

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown

Lucas, John

Luny, Thomas

Maaskamp, Evert

MacFarlane, William Husband

Malden, C. R.

Marcassus, Jean Pierre Casimir de

Marryat, after Frederick

Marryat, Frederick

McKay, John

Merle, Thomas

Meyer, Henry

Millais, John Everett

Millidge, J.

Mills, George

Moses, Henry

Mossop, W. S.

Mudge, William

Murray, I.

Mutlow

Nairne & Blunt

Nance, Robert Morton

Napier, John

Netherclift, Frederick George

Newton & Son

Nicoli, Federico

Nicoli, Frederico

Norie & Co., J.W.

Norie, John William

Norris, Charles

Nuttall, Fisher & Dixon

Orme, Daniel

Orme, Edward

Owen, WiIliam Fitzwilliam

Owen, William

P. & D. Colnaghi & Co Ltd

P., W. A.

Payne, William

Pearce, Stephen

Pelley [artist]

Philip & Evans

Phillips, Thomas

Philp & Evans

Picart, Charles

Pistrucci, Benedetto

Pocock, after Nicholas

Pocock, Isaac

Pocock, Nicholas

Pocock, William Innes

Pollard, James

Pollard, Robert

Powell, Charles Martin

Powell, Edward J.

Powell, J. Edward

Prosperi, Christopher

Pyall, H

Pyall, Henry

R. Rutherdon, R

Read, R. P.

Reigart

Rennell, James

Reynolds, Joshua

Reynolds, Samuel William

Rippin, J & M

Ritherdon, Robert

Robert Havell & Son

Roberts

Robertson, David

Roch, Sampson Towgood

Rodd, T

Rosenthal, L. N.

Ross, Charles

Ross, William Charles

Royal Danish Porcelain Manufactory

Russell, J. C.

Russell, John

S. Hollyer

Sabatier, L

Saunders, T.

Schenck, Emil Ernst Friedrich T

Schetky, after John Christian

Schetky, John Christian

Schnebbelie, Robert Blemmell

Schomberg, Charles Marsh

Schranz, Giuseppe

Scoresby, Reverend William

Scriven, Edward

Serres, John Thomas

Sewell, H.

Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer

Sherwin, John H.

Sherwood, Neely & Jones

Simon and Bourje

Smith, John Raphael

Smith, Tate & Co.

Smith, Tate, Nathan & Holt

Speare, Richard

Spencer Browning & Rust

Sproule, George

Stadler, Joseph Constantine

Stanfield, Clarkson

Steele, Capt

Stewardson, Thomas

Stocker, T.

Storck, Abraham

Storer, Henry Sargant

Storer, James

Storr, Paul

Strachan, Alexander James

Sully, Henry

Sutherland, Thomas

Syeds & Davis

T, G

T. Fall, T.

Taylor, John S

Teed, Richard

Thomas Cadell & William Davies

Thomas Harris & Son

Thornton, F.

Tobin, George

Tom, John

Treble, I.

Turner, Charles

Turner, Daniel

unidentified

United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)

Unknown

Valentine, David Thomas

Varrall, I. C.

Velde, Willem van de, the Elder

Vendramini, Giovanni

Vidal, Alexander Thomas Emeric

W. & D. Lizars, William Home & Daniel

Wageman, Thomas Charles

Walker, J.

Walker, J. & C.

Walker, Ralph

Walters, Samuel

Walters, Samuel [artist]

Ward, Jesse W.

Ward, William

Warren, A.

Watson, Caroline

Watts, George Frederick

Welch & Gwynne

Whichelo, C. John Mayle

Whitcombe, Thomas

White, H P

Whittle, James

Wicker, James

William Kersill

Wise, A.

Wivell, Abraham

Wood, John

Wyatt, Henry

Wyllie, Harold

Wyllie, William Lionel

Wyon, William

Yorke, William Gay

Yorke, William Howard

Places

Aldgate

Bermondsey

Birmingham

Bristol

Charing Cross

Chatham Dockyard

Copenhagen

Deptford Dockyard

Devonport Dockyard, Devonport, Devon, England, United Kingdom

Edinburgh

England

France

Germany

Italy

Jamaica

Kingston

London

Masqat

Navy Office

Netherlands

New York

Pembroke Dockyard

Plymouth Dockyard

Portsmouth

Portsmouth, England

Portsmouth Dockyard

Portsmouth Harbour

Ramsgate

Rostock, Germany

Rotherhithe

Sheerness Dockyard

Sheffield

Slough

Slough, England

Solingen

Somerset House

Strand

Tonga

United States of America

Unknown

Venezuela

Versailles

Woolwich Dockyard

Events

American War of Independence, 1775-1783

American War of Independence: Battle of the Saints, 1782

Archduchess Leopoldine of Austria's journey to Brazil, 1817

Arctic Exploration: Buchan's voyage, 1818

Arctic Exploration: Dr John Rae, 1853-1854

Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859

Arctic Exploration: Parry's second voyage, 1821-1823

Bombardment of Algiers, 1816

Capture of Amelia Island, 1817

Crimean War, 1854-1856

Edinburgh Volunteer Review, 1881

Expedition of the corvette Uraine, 1817-1819

First Anglo-Burmese War, 1824-1826

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Camperdown, 1797

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798

French Revolutionary Wars: Capture of the Pique, 1795

French Revolutionary Wars: Capture of the Virginie, 1796

Mutiny at the Nore, 1797

Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815

Napoleonic Wars: Action in Basque and Aix Roads, 1809

Napoleonic Wars: Attack on Spartan, 1810

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Cape Finisterre, 1805

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

Napoleonic Wars: Capture of the Clorinde, 1814

Napoleonic Wars: Capture of the Furieuse, 1809

Napoleonic Wars: Duckworth's action off San Domingo, 1806

Opening of the new harbour at Meddelburg, 1817

Operations against the Pirates of Malacca Straits, 1836-1870

Second Anglo–Dutch War: Four Days Fight, 1666

Seven Years' War: Battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759

Visit to Edinburgh by Queen Victoria, 1842

Voyage of the John Williams, 1844-1847

War of 1812: Action between Peacock and Hornet, 1813

War of 1812: Battle of Plattsburgh, 1814

War of 1812: Capture of the Argus, 1813

War of 1812: Capture of the USS Chesapeake, 1813

War of 1812: Java in action with USS Constitution, 1812

War of 1812: Wasp in action with HMS Frolic, 1812

Wreck of HMS Thetis, 1830

Vessels

Acasta (1797)

Achille (1798)

Aeolus (1825)

Agincourt (1817)

Aigle (1800)

Ajax (1798)

Ajax (1809)

Akbar (1805)

Alacrity (1818)

Alban (1813)

Albion (1802)

Alceste (captured 1806)

Alice (1874)

Amazon (1821)

Amazone (1778)

Amelia (1796)

America (1810)

Amphion (1798)

Amphitrite (1816)

Anatone [English navy]

Andromache (1832)

Anson (1812)

Arethusa (1817)

Arethuse (1812)

Argonaut (1779)

Argus (1803)

Ariel (1820)

Armada (1810)

Arrow (1823)

Asia (1811)

Astraea (1781)

Atholl (1820)

Atlas (1812)

Aurora (1809)

Barfleur (1768)

Barham (1811)

Barracouta (1807)

Barracouta (1820)

Basilisk (1848)

Beagle (1820)

Belleisle (1819)

Benbow (1813)

Berwick (1809)

Black Prince (1816)

Blanche (1786)

Blanche (1819)

Blenheim (1813)

Bolton (1709)

Bonne Citoyenne (1794)

Borneo (1817)

Bounty (purchased 1787)

Bradford (1893)

Bramble (1822)

Brick [English navy]

Brisk (1819)

Britannia (1820)

Briton (1812)

Brutus (1793)

Buffalo (1813)

Bustard (1818)

Cadmus (1808)

Camperdown (1885)

Caroline (1795)

Carron

Carysfort (1766)

Carysfort (1836)

Castle Huntley (1812)

Cerberus (1827)

Ceres (1797)

Challenger (1880)

Chancellor Livingston (1816)

Charles Grant (1810)

Charlotte Dundas (1802)

Cheerful ca.1818

Chesapeake (1799)

Chichester (1843)

Childers (1812)

Christian VII (captured 1807)

Circe (1827)

Clarence (1812)

Cleopatra (1835)

Clermont (1807)

Clorinde (1808)

Clyde (1828)

Columbia 1846

Comet (1812)

Comet (1817)

Conquestador (1810)

Constitution (1797)

Conway (1814)

Cornwall (1794)

Cornwall (1812)

Coromandel (1820)

Courageux (1800)

Cressy (1810)

Cruizer class (launched 1797-1815)

Cumberland (1807)

Curlew (1812)

Cutty Sark (1869)

Cygnet (1819)

Daedalus (1826)

Dee (1814)

Defence (1815)

Defiance (1783)

Delight (1819)

Devonshire (1812)

Diamond 1848

Diana (1822)

Diligence ca.1818

Diligente (captured circa 1800)

Director (1784)

Dove ca.1818

Dublin (1812)

Duncan (1811)

Dunira (1817)

Eagle (1946)

Eagle fl.1814 (USS)

Eclipse (1819)

Eden (1814)

Edinburgh (1811)

Edinburgh 1787

Egmont (1810)

Elephant (1786)

Elizabeth (1807)

Emerald 1820

Emulous (1819)

Enchantress (purchased 1804)

Esperanca [Spanish]

Eurotas (1813)

Falcon (1820)

Fancy ca.1817

Ferret (1806)

Flying Cloud (1851)

Formidable (1777)

Forte 1801

Fort William (1806?)

Foudrouant 1817

Foundroyant 1817

Fox (1829)

Fox (1855)

Frolic (1806)

Frolic (1820)

Furieuse (1797)

Ganges [HEIC]

Glasgow 1851

Glatton (1795)

Gloire (1778)

Glory 1788 [British navy]

Gloucester (1812)

Granicus (1813)

Grasshopper (1813)

H.M.S Trincomalee (1817)

Hamadryad (1823)

Hamoaze 1844 [HMS]

Hart (1821)

Hastings (1819)

Havock 1805

Hawke (1820)

Hebe (1826)

Hercules (1815)

Hero (1816)

Heroine 1817 [HMS]

Highflyer (1822)

Hind

HMS Tagus

Hogue (1811)

Horatio (1807)

Horatio [English navy]

Hornet (purchased 1794)

Hornet fl.1813 (USS)

Hyaena (1804) [alternative spelling: Hyena]

Immortalite (captured 1814)

Imogene (1831)

Impregnable (1810)

Indefatigable (1784)

Indefatigable (1891)

Indus (1812)

Investigator (1811)

Isis (1819)

James Watt (1821)

John Williams 1844 (missionary ship)

Joseph Cunard (1839)

Julia 1806 [HMS]

Junon 1810

Junon [French navy]

Jupiter (Dutch Navy)

Justitia (captured 1807)

Kent (1798)

Kite ca.1817

L'Alcmene (1811)

L'Arethuse [French navy]

L'Imperiale (1803)

Lacedaemonian 1812

Lacedemonian (1812)

Lady Castlereagh (1802)

Lady Raffles (1817)

Lancaster (1823)

Lapwing ca.1818

Larne (1814)

Latona (1821)

Leda (1800)

Le Diomede (1799)

Leonidas (1807)

Le Tribune (1793)

Levant 1758

Linnet (1817)

Lively (1804)

Lively (1813)

London (circa 1817)

Lord Cranstoun

Lord Nelson

Lotus [HMS]

Lowther Castle (1811)

Lyra (1808)

Magicienne (1778)

Magicienne 1781 [British navy]

Magnificent (1806)

Malabar (1818)

Malcolm Miller (1968)

Marengo (captured 1806)

Marian (circa 1817)

Maria Reijgersbergen [Dutch navy]

Marquis of Ely (1801)

Mary (1817)

Mary Ann (1879)

Mary Anne (1817)

Medea (1797)

Medusa (1801)

Medusa (1810)

Medway (1812)

Melampus (1820)

Melville (1817)

Menai (1814)

Mercedes [Spanish navy]

Mercury (1826)

Mercury 1824

Mermaid (1825)

Mermaid (purchased 1817)

Mersey 1814

Minden (1810)

Minerva (1813)

Minerva (1820)

Minerve (1805)

Monarch (1765)

Mulgrave (1812)

Namur (HMS)

Nereus (1821)

New World 1846 [American]

Niemen 1820

Niger (1846)

Nightingale (1825)

Northumberland (1798)

Onyx (1822)

Opossum (1821)

Orion (1787)

Orwell (1815)

Orwell 1817 [British]

Paragon (1811)

Parthian (1808)

Patrick Millar 1787

Peacock (1806)

Pelican (1795)

Pelican (1812)

Pembroke (1812)

Penelope (1829)

Perle

Perseverance (1787)

Piemontaise 1808 [HMS]

Pique (1785)

Pitt (1816)

Poictiers (1809) [Alternative spelling: Poitiers]

Pomone (1805)

Portland (1822)

President (captured 1815)

President 1800

Prince Albert (1840)

Prince of Wales (1794)

Prince Regent (1814)

Prince Regent (1823)

Princess Amelia (1808)

Princess Charlotte (captured 1799)

Proserpine (1830)

Prosperine 1830

Protector 1805

Providence (1808)

Quail (1817)

Queen Charlotte (1810)

Racer 1818

Raisonable 1768 [British navy]

Raritan 1807 [American]

Redbreast (1817)

Redoutable (1815)

Renommee (1808)

Repulse 1803 [HMS]

Resistance 1801

Revenge (1805)

Rhin (captured 1806)

Rippon (1812)

Rodney (1809)

Romney (1815)

Rosamund 1852

Rothesay Castle 1816 [British]

Royal George (1817)

Royal George 1817 (HMY)

Royal George 1817 [British]

Royal Sovereign (1804)

Russell (1822)

Salisbury (1814)

Santa Margarita (captured 1779)

Saturn (1786)

Scaleby Castle (1798)

Scamander (1813)

Scarborough (1812)

Serpent 1832 (HMS)

Shamrock (circa 1816)

Shannon (1806)

Sharpshooter 1805

Sidney 1817

Sir Winston Churchill (1966)

Skylark (1821)

Southampton (1820)

Sovereign of the Seas 1637

Sparkler 1804

Sparrow ca.1818

Spartan 1806

Speedy (1828)

Spey 1814 [HMS]

Sprightly 1818

Starling 1817

St Fiorenzo 1794 (HMS)

Stirling Castle (1811)

Superb 1798 (HMS)

Surprise (1812)

Swift (1817)

Talavera (1818)

Tamar (1814)

Tees (1817)

Tenedos (1812)

Terror (1813)

Thalia (1830)

Thames (1823)

Thetis (1817)

Thisbe (1824)

Thomas Coutts (1817)

Thomas Coutts 1817 [British]

Thunderer (1818)

Tickler 1804

Toronto (1813 or 1817)

Tortoise (1784, purchased 1804)

Towey (1814)

Tricomalee 1817 [HMS]

Trident [British]

Trincomalee (1817)

Trincomalee DUP (1817)

Trompeur (fl.1797)

True Briton (1835)

Tyne (1814)

Unicorn (1794)

Unicorn (1824)

Union 1811 [HMS]

Uranie (1811)

Valiant (1807)

Venerable 1784 [British navy]

Venguer (1810)

Venus (1820)

Vestal (1833)

Victory (1765)

Vigo (1810)

Ville de Paris (1764)

Vincejo (1799)

Vindictive (1813)

Wasp (1807)

Waterloo (1818)

Wellesley (1815)

Weymouth (1804)

William & Mary [British]

Winchelsea (1803)

Winchester (1822)

Windsor Castle (1790)

Woodlark (1821)

Worcester (1843)

Wye (1814)

Exhibition

Art for the Nation

Nelson, Navy, Nation

North-West Passage

Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames

Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton

Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude

The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire

Time and Longitude

Traders: The East India Company and Asia

Turmoil and Tranquillity

Voyagers

People

Alexander McDonald, Alexander

Allen, Thomas

Assembly of Jamaica

Bainbridge, William

Beaufort, Francis

Beaufort Testimonial

Binham, John William Tully

Black Ball Line

Blane, Gilbert

Bligh, George Miller

Bligh, William

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Bond, R H Aed

Bosanquet, Henry Theodore Augustus

Brace, Edward

Britannia

British Fleet

British Navy

Brummell, George Bryan

Bullen, Charles

Burrard-Neale, Harry

Calder, Robert

Campbell, George

Capt, 1783-1828, Henley, Robert,

Chads, Henry Ducie

Chetwynd, John Henry

Churchill, Edward

City of London

Cockburn, George

Cole, Captain Christopher

Correa de Araujo, Piedro

Cottle, Ernest Wyndham

Cotton, Charles

Cotton, Joseph

Crew

Croker, John Wilson

Cumming, Ab

Cunningham, Charles

Curtis, Roger

Dale, Richard

Davis, Joseph

de France, Louis Stanislas Xavier

Dewar, John

Dickinson, Thomas

Diddams, Nicholas

Donatien, Jean-Baptiste

Duckworth, John Thomas

Dudley

Duncan, Adam

Durham, Philip Charles Henderson Calderwood

Dutch Fleet

Dutch Squadron

Edinburgh Volunteer's

Ekins, Charles

English Fleet

English Troops

Experimental Squadon - British

Fawssett, A. C.

Fellowes, William Dorset

Fischer, Johan Olfert

Fisher, Sarah

Foote, Anna

Fowler, John

Fox, The Right Honourable Charles James

Francis Pettit Smith

French Fleet

French Navy

French Squadron

Friendly, Alfred

Fryer, John

Fulton, Robert

Fürst, Moritz

Gardiner, Thomas

Giesecke, Charles Lewis

Gore, Honourable Colonel William J.

Gore, Honourable Robert

Graves, Thomas

Greenwich Hospital

Grey, Charles

Hall, Basil

Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, James

Hamilton, Emma

Hamilton, William

Harness, John

Hawkins, John

Hay, William

Heath, Thomas

Herschel, John Frederick William

HM Admiralty

Hobart, Robert

Hodgson, George Henry

Home, Captain James Everard

Hood, Alexander

Hood, Samuel

Hook, Theodore Edward

Hoste, William

Houston, Wallace

Hudson, Robert

Jamaica, Council of

Jennings and Company

Jervis, John

Johan, Carl

Kater

Keats, Richard Goodwin

King, Maria Susanna

King, Richard

King, Sarah Anne

King George III

King George IV

King William IV

Kraus Family

Lacerda, M H Cavalcanti de

Lambert, Francis

Lang, Oliver

Lawrence, James

Leopoldine, Archduchess of

Lloyd's Patriotic Fund

London Missionary Society

Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty

Macdonald, Major-General

MacGregor, Gregor

Malcolm, Pulteney

Marden, Luis

Marryat, Frederick

Maxwell, Murray

Merchants & Underwriters of Bombay

Merchants of Kingston

Middleton, Charles

Milne, Alexander

Miss Duckworth King

Mogensen, Frederik

Morgan, Thomas

Mossop, W. S.

Nelson, Catherine

Nelson, Horatia

Nelson, Horatio

Nelson-Ward Collection

Netherlands: Navy

Northcote, John

Norwegian Navy

Onslow, George

Onslow, Richard

Order of the Bath

Parker, Hyde

Peake, Henry

Pell, Watkin Owen

Pellew, Edward

Penrose, Charles Vinicombe

Pett, Peter

Pocock, Nicholas

Pocock, William Innes

Portlock, Nathaniel

Portlock-Dodson, W

Prince Albert, Consort of Queen Victoria

Prince of Wales

Pym-Hale, Thomas

Queen Victoria

R. Rutherdon, R

Rear-Admiral James Cockburn, James

Reilly, E M, & Co

Robert Havell & Son

Rogers, James Macdonald

Roos, John Frederick Fitzgerald de

Ross, John

Royal Artillery: Medium Regiment, 15

Royal Danish Porcelain Manufactory

Royal Navy

Royal United Service Institution

Rule, William

Rump, Hugh R.

Seppings, Robert

Serres, John Thomas

Sheepshanks, Reverend Richard

Souter Johnstone, William

South Kensington Museum

Southwick, Leslie

Stevens, John Malcolm

Sultan, Sa'id Ibn

T. Fall, T.

Teague, Gerard Warden

Thomas Cadell & William Davies

Thompson, Benjamin

Towry, George Phillips

Tromp, Maarten Harpertszoon

USN, Jacob Jones

Velde, Willem van de, the Elder

Vice-Admiral Reijntjes

Walker, Charles Montague

Ward, Philip

Warden, Doctor William

Wheatley Cobb, Geoffrey

Whitcombe, Thomas

William Kersill

Williams, John

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'Borneo' of London on Southsea beach, 22 October 1820 (Drawing)

Fun at Sea - the Sham Fight off Brighton with the capture of the Knight of the Larder Privateer - or the Alderman in Chains (caricature) (Sir William Curtis and Prince Regent) (Print)

Sir William Hamilton, K.B. F.R.S. Engraved by W T Fry from an original Drawing made at Naples by C Grignon (Print)

The East Indiaman 'Asia' (Painting)

Sumatra west coast Sheet II Tyingkokh Bay to the Strait of Sunda From a Dutch chart compiled by Lieutt. A.C.J. Edeling, Royal Dutch Navy. 1857... (Chart)

Commemorative medal depicting the 'John Williams' Missionary ship (Medal)

Medal commemorating the 'John Williams' missionary ship (Medal)

'Magnificent' (1806); 'Valiant' (1807); 'Elizabeth' (1807); 'Cumberland' (1807) (Technical drawing)

Proposed new method of fixing keels to 74 gun ships (Technical drawing)

Microscope

Sailing vessel leaving port (Print)

Bed

Plan of the Charlotte Dundas (Print)

China Sea sheet IInd (Chart)

possibly Racer (1818); Sprightly (1818), and Speedy (1828) and Snipe (1828) (Drawing)

Athol (1820) (Technical drawing)

Investigator (1811) (Drawing)

Sparkler (1804); Tickler (1804); Protector (1805); Sharpshooter (1805) (Technical drawing)

P50279; Activity on the foredeck on board the 3-masted topsail schooner Malcolm Miller (1968) while under sail in Portsmouth Harbour.

Activity on the foredeck on board the 3-masted topsail schooner Malcolm Miller (1968) while under sail in Portsmouth Harbour. (Roll film negative)

Lighter Number 1 (1804) (Technical drawing)

Attack on Fort Oswego, on Lake Ontario, North America, May 6th 1814 (Print)

Log glass

China Sea sheet 1st. To James Drummond Esquire in acknowledgement for his laudable endeavours towards perfecting the navigation of the China Sea this chart is inscribed by his most obliged James Horsburgh (Chart)

Proposed new method of fixing keels to 74 gun ships (Technical drawing)

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