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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)
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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)
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Bone, Muirhead
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Brenet, N. G.
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Huggins, William John
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John I. Thornycroft & Co. Ltd
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Judin, S.
Karlsten, A.
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Müller, O.
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Pullicino, Alberto
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Wieringen, Cornelis Claesz van
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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
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Basilisk (1740)
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Cadiz (1944)
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Catherine Apcar (1892)
Columbia 1846
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Defiant (1934)
Dido (1836)
Edinburgh (1811)
Empire Lightning (1940)
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Furnace 1740
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Grampus (1746)
Gravelines (1944)
Grom 1936
Gurkha (1940)
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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)
Magnificent (1894)
Mahratta (1942)
Marne (1940)
Martin (1940)
Matchless (1941)
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Prometheus (1807)
Raven (1745)
Renown (1886)
Resolution (purchased 1771)
Rose (1821)
Royal Sovereign (1804)
Saintes (1944)
Sapphire (1827)
Sheet Lightning (1918)
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)
Thunder and Lightning (1938)
Trafalgar (1944)
Victory (1765)
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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
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Edward Hawke Locker
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Flight, Thomas
Forbes, Norman P.
Glyn-Jones, Anne
Goodall, Stanley Vernon
Goor, J.J. van der
Greenwich Hospital
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Hitler Youth
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Lang, Oliver W.
Lauer, L. C.
Lee, William, & Son
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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
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Victor, Louisfl
Wachtmeister, Hans
Waters, David Watkin
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Royal Yachts in a Storm (Painting)
Fishermen on Shore Hauling in their Nets (Painting)
Medal commemorating John Jervis, Earl St Vincent (1735-1823) and the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797 (Medal)
Design for a Naval Column - 'To Perpetuate the Destruction of the Regicide Navy of France and the Triumph of the British Navy' (Print)
Foochow junk (Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set)
Ships Cover for the Comus class steel screw corvettes. (Manuscript)
Captain Joseph Sydney Yorke, 1768-1831 (Painting)
The Reverend Doctor Alexander Scott, 1768-1840 (Painting)
H.M. Revenue Cutter Prince George of 72 tons, John Roach Commander, on her voyage from London to Sydney, New South Wales, off the Island of St. Pauls, encountering a tremendous hurricane in Lat. 39 1/2 S. Long. 78 E. August 1833 (Print)
Album containing various vessels built by J. I. Thornycroft, c1901-c1908 (Photograph album)
Copper strip
Niitaka (1902); Warship; Cruiser (Full hull model; Rigged model)
Cargo vessel; Pole junk (Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set)
Defiant (International Racing Canoe)
Combined sword and pistol
Box
The Wreck of the 'Amsterdam' (Painting)
Ships Wrecked on a Rocky Shore (Painting)
Hitler Youth pennant (Pennant)
'A View of Cape Stephens in Cook's Straits with Waterspout' (Painting)
Grom (1936); Warship; Destroyer (Polish) (Full hull model)
John I. Thornycroft-built British and foreign Torpedo Boat Destroyers, 1876-1887 (Photograph album)
Box
Renown (1886); Cargo vessel; Barge; Sailing barge; Stumpie (Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set)
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