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Inside the megaship: on board one of the world's biggest container ships
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Arm badge
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clothing accessory: uniform insignia: badge, arm
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: strap, shoulder(pair)
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Gunner's Mate's
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Head Tourist Steward's
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Masseur's
Colour transparency
Design, Plating model
documentary artifact: book
documentary artifact: photonegative, film
documentary artifact: programme
documentary artifact: ship plan: carriage, gun(32pdr)
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, boat
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, forecastle
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, poop
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, spar
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard
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Dry card compass
Glass plate negative
Gouge blade
Half block model
Half block model; Plating model
Half block modelPlating model
Historic Photographic Negative
Hour-glass
Inboard profile plan
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MAP-SHEET
Marine chronometer
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presentation artifact: box, snuff
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print
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Ship's programme
Shoulder strap
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stand
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, dry card
Technical drawing
timekeeping t&e: hour-glass(15 minute)
War medal
water transport: exploration/research vessel: yacht, survey vessel &
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: corvette
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, 3rd class (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 18 gun
water transport: model, design: plating model(half)
water transport: motor vessel: twin screw
water transport: service vessel: hulk, powder
water transport: steam vessel: quadruple screw
water transport accessory: badge, boat
woodworking t&e: blade, gouge(shipwrights)
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aquatint, coloured
black, red, green, and purple inks
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coating: varnish
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etching, soft ground
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lithograph?, tinted
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metal: alloy, copper
metal: gold, enamelled: organic: textile [ribbon]
metal: silver
metal: silver thread
metal: unknown
mica
organic: mother-of-pearl
organic: textile [ribbon]
organic: wood: teak, ?
ozatrace
paint
paper
pen & ink
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wood: pine
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Adams, Edgar Tarry
Bird, Henry P.
Black, Parry & Co
Bone, Muirhead
Breton, Louis Le
Bunbury, Henry William
Canot, Pierre Charles
Captain Baane
Cie, E. Savary et
Clark, I.
Cook, John Kingsley
Curzon, Francis Richard Henry Penn
Dade, Ernest
Dawson, Nelson
Deadman, H E
Des Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet
Duncan, Edward
Ekeberg, Charles Gustav
Engelmann, Graf, Coindet, & Co
Froment
Grierson, Alec R.
Harmar, T.
Harris, Douglas D.
Hill, Henry Oliver
HM Admiralty
HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
Hull, E.
Kullberg, Victor
Lawrance, George Bell
Lemercier
Macklin Poets Gallery
Marine Photo Service
Ministry of Defence
Monamy, Peter
Nichols & Co
Pembroke Dockyard
Rennell, James
Rigg, T. M.
Scott's Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd
Shepherd, George
United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)
Unknown
Walker, J. & C.
Wathen, James
Wettern, Desmond Robert French
William Edye
Worsley, John Godfrey Bernard
Wyllie, William Lionel
Wyon, Benjamin
Wyon, William
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Lisbon, Lisboa District, Portugal
London
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Malaysia
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Paris
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth Dockyard
possibly England
Royal Albert Dock
St. Margaret's Bay
Taunton
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Coronation Naval Review At Spithead, 1911
Crimean War, 1854-1856
Royal Naval Athletic Sports, 1880
Vessels
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Arran (1953)
Ashanti (1959)
Barrosa (1889)
Belgian Seaman (1941)
British Fame (1949)
Chandpara (1949)
Chequers (1944)
Chusan (1950)
Claude V Ricketts (1960)
Cleopatre (1838)
Effingham (1921)
Exeter (1929)
Gibraltar (captured 1780)
Hermes (1953)
Katie (1881)
Kenton (1921)
Lynx (1955)
Modeste (1837)
Neptune (1909)
Oil Rapier (1983)
Orion (1910)
Pz 464 (Fl.1936)
Royal George (1715)
Sea Gull (1874)
St. Katharine (1928)
Tiger (1945)
Tongariro (1925)
Vivien 1918 (HMS)
Warspite (1913)
Wild Fulmar (1974)
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Adams, Francis Norris
Adams, Gordon
Adams, Helen Ann
Adams, Isabel Mary
Agence Maritime Internationale S A
Anthony & Bainbridge Ltd
Belgian State
Cayzer, Irvine and Company Limited
Collingwood, Cuthbert
Dyson, Frank Watson
Hardy, Pamela
Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport
HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
Macdonald, Reginald John
Nelson, Horatio
Niewiarowski, Stanislaus
Philip and Son Ltd
Roberts, Thomas
Scott's Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd
Union-Castle Line
Whitehaven Shipping Co Ltd
Young, Thomas James
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