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Arctic Exploration: Dr John Rae, 1853-1854
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Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
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Action off the Texel,
17
October, 1914 (Drawing)
Action off the Texel,
17
October 1914, with the last German torpedo boat sinking (Drawing)
Victorious (1939) (Technical drawing)
Tent pole
Pole, Tent
Pole, Tent
Pole, Tent
Royal Naval Warships and
P
&O Liners (Photograph album)
Pole, Tent
Box
The satellite navigator console in the Chart Room on the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) (Colour transparency)
A view of the Indian cook on board the bulk carrier Wilkawa (1964) at sea (Colour transparency)
'Floating out of a Battleship, Chatham Dockyard' (HMS 'Illustrious') (Drawing)
A voyage of the
P
&O Passenger/cargo ship Mongolia (1923) (Photograph album)
Scientists and the bosun deploying the bottom dredge over the stern on the shelter deck on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery (1962) while at sea. (Roll film negative)
Spoon
'HMS Sovereign of the Seas' [i.e., 'Royal Sovereign'] (Painting)
Fue
Passenger vessel (Waterline model; Miniature model)
Album relating to the Royal Naval service of Admiral Sir George
P
. W.
Photograph album relating to the Royal Navy career of Captain Andrew Johnstone, D.S.O, RN (Photograph album)
Album relating to the naval career of Commander G. A. Titterton, Royal Navy (Photograph album)
Hillyar portrait Album
17
Captain Geoffrey Martin Bennett, D.S.C., died 1983 (Photograph album)
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