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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

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

Type

Armband

Badge

Barrel with stand

Bolt

Bolts

Boom

Bow Mast Crutch

Box

Builder's, Full hull model

Builder's, Half block model

Buoyancy Tank Vent Cover

Cast

cast: coin cast: jeton de marine

cast: coin cast: jeton des galeres

cast: medal cast: commemorative medal

cast: medal cast: naval reward

Centreboard

ceremonial artifact: flag

ceremonial artifact: flag, junk

clothing, footwear: uniform: uniform, Sub-Lieutenant's

clothing accessory: uniform: handbag

Combined sword and pistol

Copper strip

Cotton Bag

Counter

Design, Half block model

Display label

documentary artifact: badge

documentary artifact: model, ethnographic boat

documentary artifact: ship plan: body

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, forecastle

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower(part)

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, platform

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, superstructure

documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper

documentary artifact: ship plan: hold

documentary artifact: ship plan: lightning conductor

documentary artifact: ship plan: lines

documentary artifact: ship plan: lines & profile

documentary artifact: ship plan: profile

documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard

documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, outboard

documentary artifact: ship plan: section

documentary artifact: ship plan: section, aft

documentary artifact: ship plan: section, forward

documentary artifact: ship plan: section, midship

documentary artifact: ship plan: sheer

Drawing

Engine model

Engine model; Sectional model

Engine model; Sectional model; Display label

Flag

Forecastle deck plan

Full-hull model

Full hull model

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

Full hull model; Rigged model

Full hull model; Rigged model; Label

Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set

Full hull shipbuilder’s exhibition model

Genoa Sail

GPS Time & Frequency Receiver

Half block model

Half hull model

Half hull shipbuilder’s exhibition model

Handbag

hold

Hull

Inboard profile plan

Instructional, Picture model

Instructional, Sectional model

International 14 Class

International Racing Canoe

International Sailing Canoe

Jamming Cleat

Jib Sheet Roller

Jug

Kicking Strap Clamp

Kicking Strap Cover

Large Genoa Sail

Large Spinnaker Sail

Lightning Conductor

Lines

lines

Lines & Profile

Lower deck plan

Main Sail

Manuscript

Marine chronometer

Mast

Masthead

Mast Jack Handle

Medal

Medal cast

Midship model

Miscellaneous Wire Rigging

Mug

Outboard profile plan

Painting

Pennant

personal symbol: broad arrow

Photograph album

Picture model

Plank-on-frame

Plate

profile

Racing Dinghy

Racing Dinghy; International 14 Class

relic, ship: barrel

relic, ship: timber

relic: strip, copper

Rigged model

Rudder

Sail Bag

Sail baton

Sails set

Screwdriver

section

section, midship

Sectional model

Sectional model; Midship model

sheer

Ship's badge

Small Genoa Sail

Spinnaker Pole

Spinnaker Sail

Spinnaker Sail Bag

Sternboard

Stern Mast Crutch

Technical drawing

technical drawing

Tiller

Timber

timekeeper: chronometer, marine

Tool for releasing shackle bolts

trapeze belt

Upper deck plan

visual communication t&e: flag, signal

Waterline model

water transport: cargo vessel

water transport: cargo vessel: barge, stumpie

water transport: cargo vessel: clipper

water transport: cargo vessel: East Indiaman

water transport: cargo vessel: junk (China)

water transport: cargo vessel: junk, trading (Pechili)

water transport: cargo vessel: packet (Post Office)

water transport: cargo vessel: ship, clipper

water transport: exploration/research vessel: survey vessel (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate

water transport: fighting vessel: 3 gun boat (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: bomb

water transport: fighting vessel: corvette

water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser (Japanese)

water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer (Polish)

water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: gunvessel, wood (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: gunvessel, wood paddle (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 18 gun

water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 18 gun (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: torpedo boat (HMS)

water transport: fighting vessel: warship (HMS)

water transport: fishing vessel: junk, fishing (China)

water transport: fishing vessel: trawler, Brixham

water transport: model, exhibition: block model(decked: equipped: half)

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

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

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

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

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

water transport: passenger/cargo vessel

water transport: sailing vessel: barge, stumpie

water transport: sailing vessel: junk, pole

water transport: sailing vessel: junk, pole (Foochow)

water transport: sailing vessel: ship, clipper

water transport: service vessel: fireship

water transport: service vessel: launch

water transport: steam vessel

water transport: steam vessel, paddle

water transport: steam vessel: launch, steam

water transport: steam vessel: paddle-wheel

water transport: steam vessel: screw

water transport: unknown function: ship

water transport: unknown function: sloop (HMS)

water transport: yacht, royal (HMY)

water transport accessory: badge, ship's

water transport accessory: sternboard

water transport component: engine, side lever (longitudinal)

water transport component: midship: conductors, lightning

water transport component: model, instructional: picture model(cutaway: engine: longitudinal: working)

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

Working model

Materials

aquatint

aquatint & etching

aquatint, coloured

black crayon

black ink

blue ink

blue wash

bone

brass

bronze

card

carved

cloth

coating: gilt

coating: paint

coating: varnish

coloured lithograph

copper

copper alloy

cotton

diagonal

earthenware

engraving & etching

engraving, steel

engraving, wood

etching

etching, coloured

fabric

fore and aft plank

fruit wood

gilded

gilded bronze

gilded copper

gilt

glass

graphite

green ink

green ink (faint)

grey wash

halftone, colour

hand sewn

hemp

ink

iron

laminated

lead

linen

linen backed paper

linen backed tracing paper

lithograph, coloured

lithograph, tinted

mahogany

metal

metal: brass

metal: copper

metal: gold

metal: gold wire

metal: lead

metal: silver

metal: unknown

metal ?

mezzotint

mica

nylon

oil on board

oil on canvas

oil on panel

organic: card

organic: cotton

organic: paper

organic: silk

paint

painted

paper

pen & ink

pen & ink & watercolour

pen & ink, brown

pen & wash

pen and ink and wash on paper

pencil

photographic prints

pine

plaster

plastic

porcelain

red ink

red wash

satin

silk

silver

Stainless Steel

steel

synthetic: plastic

synthetic fibre

textile

varnish

watercolour

wood

wood: pine

Display Location

Display - Nelson, Navy, Nation Gallery

Display - QH

Display - ROG

Display - Sea Things Gallery

Display - Traders Gallery

Not on display

Creator

A. Daumilier

Ackermann, Rudolph

Adlam, W.

Anonymous

Baston, Thomas

Beeger, Max

Bendixen, Siegfried Detlen

Blackwell, Philip Francis Broke

Bone, Muirhead

Brandard, J

Brenet, N. G.

Brierly, Oswald Walters

British School, 19th century

Brooking, Charles

Browne, Charles W.

Bulla Freres & Jouy

Canot, Pierre Charles

Chambers, George

Condy, Nicolas Matthew

Crawley, F S

D. & W. Henderson & Company

Danloux, Henri Pierre

Day & Son

Dickinson, William

Director of Naval Construction

Dodd, Robert

Dutton, Thomas Goldsworthy

E. Gambart & Co

Ebner

Elder, Alexander P

Festing, Andrew

Flemish School

Flight, Thomas

Foster, William

Fox, Uffa

Gillray, James

Goodall, Stanley Vernon

Goor, J.J. van der

Goyen, Jan van

Hanhart, Michael

Hanhart, Nicholas

Harris, John

HM Admiralty

HM Admiralty; Department of Electrical Engineering

HM Admiralty; Director of Naval Construction; Stanley Vernon Goodall

Hodges, William

Hoef, C. J. van der

Holtzhey, M.

Huggins, William John

Isaac, John R.

John I. Thornycroft & Co. Ltd

John Samuel White and Co. Ltd

Judin, S.

Karlsten, A.

Kellow, Effingham J

Lang, O.

Lang, Oliver W.

Lauer, L. C.

Leavitt, C. Walter

Lt James Henry Butt

Luny, Thomas

Mills, George

Milton, Thomas

Moses, Henry

Mudie, J.

Müller, O.

NavSymm

Needham, Jonathan

Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd

Pennington, James

Pickersgill, Henry William

Porcellis, Julius

Porthouse, Thomas

Prior, W H

Puget, Pierre

Pullicino, Alberto

R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie & Co. Ltd

Robert Sayer & John Bennett

Robinson, William B.

Roe, John

Rogat, Emile

Rosenberg, Charles

Staets, Hendrick

Story, W. T.

Straker

the Younger, John Cleveley,

United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)

Unknown

Vlieger, Simon de

Walters, Samuel

Weale, John

Whimper

Wieringen, Cornelis Claesz van

Wittel, Gaspar van

Ya, Tung

Places

China

Chiswick

Cowes

Daventry

Devonport Dockyard

East Boston

France

Germany

Hebburn

Jarrow

London

Mary Tavy

Navy Office

Netherlands

Newcastle upon Tyne

Plymouth Dockyard

Portsmouth Dockyard

Russia

School of Naval Architecture, Portsmouth

Sweden

Unknown

Weihai

Whitehall

Whitehall, City of Westminster, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Woolwich Dockyard

Worcester

Yokosuka Naval Yard, Japan

Events

Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish Armada, 1588

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

Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Hall, 1864-1869

Bombardment of St Malo, 1695

Bombardment of Tripoli, 1685

Capture of Nice, 1691

Crimean War, 1854-1856

Crimean War: Bombardment of Bomarsund, 1854

Earthquake at Lisbon, 1755

First Opium War, 1840-1842

Franco-Algerian War: Bombardement of Algiers, 1683

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797

French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805

Russo-Turkish War: Bombardment of Azov, 1696

Second Anglo–Dutch War: Four Days Fight, 1666

Second Opium War, 1857-1860

Second Opium War: Capture of Canton, 1857

War of Jenkins' Ear: Capture of Porto Bello, 1739

World War I, 1914-1918

Wreck of HMS Thetis, 1830

Vessels

Alderney (1735)

Ambuscade (1773)

Amsterdam (1594)

Ariel (1821)

Armada (1943)

Asia (1824)

Barfleur (1943)

Basilisk (1740)

Black Prince (1861)

Blast (1740)

Bombay (1828)

Boreas 17C (French East Indiaman) ?

Burford (1722)

Cadiz (1944)

Camperdown (1944)

Carcass (1740)

Catherine Apcar (1892)

Columbia 1846

Comet (1807)

Comet (1828)

Defiant (1934)

Dido (1836)

Edinburgh (1811)

Erebus (1807)

Finisterre (1944)

Furnace 1740

Gabbard (1945)

Ganges (1821)

Grampus (1746)

Gravelines (1944)

Grom 1936

Gurkha (1940)

H.M.S. Hannibal

Havock 1936 (HMS)

Hogue (1944)

Janus (1895)

L'Orient fl.1798 (French)

Lady Juliana (1777)

Laforey (1941)

Lagos (1944)

Lance (1940)

Larne 1829

Legion (1939)

Lightning (1755)

Lightning (1806)

Lightning (1823)

Lightning (1829)

Lightning (1895)

Lightning (1940)

Lightning 1740

Lightning 1854

Lightning 1854 [British]

Lightning 1859 [British]

Lightning 1876

Lightning 1877

Lightning 1891

Lily 1861

Lively (1940)

Lookout (1940)

Loyal (1941)

Lyra (1808)

Magnificent (1894)

Mahratta (1942)

Marne (1940)

Martin (1940)

Matchless (1941)

Meteor (1941)

Milne (1941)

Modeste (1837)

Musketeer (1941)

Myrmidon (1942)

Niitaka 1902

Porcupine (1895)

Powerful (1895)

President 1839 [American]

Prince George (fl.1833)

Prometheus (1807)

Raven (1745)

Renown (1886)

Resolution (purchased 1771)

Rose (1821)

Royal Sovereign (1804)

Saintes (1944)

Sapphire (1827)

Sluys (1945)

Solebay (1944)

St. James (1945)

St. Kitts (1944)

Surinam 1805 [HMS]

Tartarus (1806)

TB 1 (Lightning) (1877)

Thais (1806)

Thisbe (1783)

Thunder (1740)

Thunder 1859 [British]

Thunder and Lightning (1938)

Trafalgar (1944)

Victory (1765)

Vigo (1945)

Exhibition

Art for the Nation

Nelson, Navy, Nation

Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames

Seduction and Celebrity: The Spectacular Life of Emma Hamilton

Time and Longitude

Traders: The East India Company and Asia

Turmoil and Tranquillity

People

A. Daumilier

Army and Navy Under-officers Association

Bart, Jean

Black Ball Line

Bourbon, Louis Alexandre de

British Fleet

Butt, James Henry

Cayzer, Anthony

Committee of Marine Insurers of Bordeaux

Cradock, Henry

Deptford Dockyard

Dickinson, Thomas

Edward Hawke Locker

Fellowes, Charles

Flight, Thomas

Forbes, Norman P.

Glyn-Jones, Anne

Goodall, Stanley Vernon

Goor, J.J. van der

Greenwich Hospital

Hall, Basil

Hall, Charles Francis

Harris, W Simon

Hitler Youth

J. Scott Russell & Co

Jervis, John

John I. Thornycroft & Co. Ltd

King George IV

King William IV

Lang, Oliver W.

Lauer, L. C.

Lee, William, & Son

Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty

McClure, Robert John Le Mesurier

McKay, Donald

Mills, George

Moses, Henry

Mudie, J.

Nelson, Horatio

Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd

Pennington, James

Portsmouth Signal School

Prien, Günther, Capt-Lt, Gunther

Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Victoria

R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie & Co. Ltd

Roe, Michael Thomas

Royal Navy

Royal United Service Institution

Ruyter, Michel Adriaenszoon de

Scott, Peter

Scott, Reverend Alexander John

Scott-Smith, F. S.

Story, W. T.

Tirpitz, Alfred Peter Friedrich von

Tromp, Luitenant-Admiraal Cornelis van

Tsar Peter I of Russia

Victor, Louisfl

Wachtmeister, Hans

Waters, David Watkin

Winter, John

Women's Royal Canadian Naval Reserve

Yorke, Joseph Sydney

Century

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18th

19th

20th

unknown

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Lightning Conductor

Thunder and Lightning (Mast)

Thunder and Lightning (Centreboard)

Thunder and Lightning (Screwdriver)

Thunder and Lightning (Tiller)

Lightning (1823) (Technical drawing)

Thunder and Lightning (Hull)

Thunder and Lightning (Mast)

Thunder and Lightning (Tiller)

Thunder and Lightning (Rudder)

Thunder and Lightning (Centreboard)

Thunder and Lightning (Boom)

Thunder and Lightning (Sail Bag)

Thunder and Lightning (Genoa Sail)

Thunder and Lightning (Sail Bag)

Thunder and Lightning (Spinnaker Pole)

Thunder and Lightning (trapeze belt)

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