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Boat's Liquid Compass
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documentary artifact: ship plan: hold
documentary artifact: ship plan: lines & profile
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surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, boat's liquid
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water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 74 gun ship
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water transport: fighting vessel: cutter
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Ackermann, Rudolph
Baker Compass Co.
Blake, Gerald John
Bloteling, Abraham
Boydell, John
Bunney & Gold
Dodd, Robert
Eeckhout, Gerbrand van den
Harris, Douglas D.
Harris, John
London Printing & Publishing Company Ltd
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Terry, George W.
Ubsdell, Richard Henry Clements
Valk, Gerard
Valk, Leonard
Winkles, Henry
Wyllie, William Lionel
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Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
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John Brown & Company Ltd
Vries, Tjerk Hiddes De
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Seeadler (1892) (Negative)
Instructional, Waterline model
El Morro (1944) (Negative)
Boat's Liquid Compass
Terrestrial miniature globe (Miniature globe stand)
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Trafalgar at 2.30pm (Print)
Dunelm Collier (Drawing)
Key plate to Battle of St Vincent (Print)
Tjerk Hiddes de Fries, Admiraal van Frieslandt (Print)
Capture of the William Tell (Print)
The Royal Navy. No 4. Mate. 2nd Class Boy. Commodore. (uniform) (Print)
The Admiral Superintendent's staff in the grounds of 9 The Parade, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire (Negative)
Box
Admiral Sir E Lyons in The Agamemnon, attacking Fort Constantine Octr 17 1854 (Print)
Central America West Coast Sheet 1 Gulf of Panama From Cape Marzo to Mariato Point Surveyed by Captn Henry Kellett R.N. C.B. Also Comr James Wood. 1849. (Chart; Print)
In the main control room on board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company liquified petroleum gas carrier Gazana (1972). (Colour transparency)
On board the type 81 general purpose frigate HMS Zulu (1962) in Rosyth Dockyard during a lengthy refit which was completed in December 1974. In the C.O's sleeping cabin between 45⅓ and 46¼ stations on the starboard side of 1 deck. (Roll film negative)
Three cargo steamers alongside wharves in Castries harbour, St. Lucia, West Indies. (Sheet film negative)
Fly (1763) (Technical drawing)
Alcide (1779) (Technical drawing)
A starboard side view of the superstructure of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company general cargo ship Strathdare (1974) alongside in Liverpool Docks. (Colour transparency)
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