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clothing accessory: uniform insignia: button(2)
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docking
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documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, bridges
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water transport: fighting vessel: 91 gun ship
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Balcan Engineering
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Dade, Ernest
Davies, Bryer & Company
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Sir Howard Kennard, Howard
Stokes, John Lort
Tegmeyer, F.
Thomas, Robert Strickland
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Velde, Willem van de, the Younger
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Forrest, Arthur
H. M. Ministry of War Transport
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HM Dockyard, Chatham
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N.V. Petroleum Maatschappij "La Corona"
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Racal Marine Electronics: Racal-Decca MIRANS Navigation & voyage management systems (Brochure)
Sketches of lighters and rowing boats (Drawing)
Slight sketch of a sailing vessel being rowed with four oars (Drawing)
Box
Alcoa to the Caribbean from New Orleans [Brochure for Alcoa Steamship Company Inc.] (Brochure)
Five framed sketches of views in Regent's Park (Drawing)
section
Captain Arthur Forrest (Print)
docking
Inboard profile plan
The Pearling Fleet, NW Australia, 1930 (Drawing)
Sketch of a barque at sea (inside back cover) (Drawing)
Lower hanger deck plan
Britannia and Valkyrie (Drawing)
section, construction
Lines & Profile
[no title given] (Chart; Manuscript)
Official ship's badge of HMS Nonsuch (Ship's badge)
Sir Ernest Palmer (1924); Talbot (1961) (Historic Photographic Negative)
Argus (1904) (Technical drawing)
Neapolis (view of Naples) (Print)
First Class Cabin on Neuralia postcard (Postcard)
City of York (1904) (Glass plate negative)
Structural model; Lead bars
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