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Adjusting pin
advertising medium: symbol, trade
armament t&e, ammunition: cover, gun(sledge gun cover)
astronomical t&e: telescope(refracting comet seeking)
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic signalman's
At Sea: A Portrait of a Scottish Fishing Community
Badge
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Builder's, Full hull model
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cast: medal cast: lifesaving medal
ceremonial artifact: henta koi(scare devil)
ceremonial artifact: monument
City of London Presentation Sword
clothing, footwear: boot, inner(pair of moccasins)
clothing, headwear: uniform: cap
clothing, headwear: uniform: uniform, Rating's
clothing accessory: square, cotton
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: button
clothing outerwear: naval uniform: lieutenant
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documentary artifact: model, tent(8 man tent)
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exchange medium: half crown
exchange medium: penny (Victorian)
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furniture, ship's: chest, medicine ?
furniture: bookcase
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land transport accessory: netting, sledge
land transport component: netting, sledge
Life saving award
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mechanical t&e: model, instructional
mechanical t&e: sheer legs
medal, British: Lifesaving Award: Victorian Colonists Medal, 1859
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medical & psychological t&e: chest, medicine
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Miniature: Royal Victorian Order, Commander
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Moonrise Over The End of The World - Furthest West - The Mid Atlantic Ocean Faro Orchillo, Punta Orchillo The Isle of El Hierro, the Carnary Islands, Spain
Naval telescope
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Octant
Octant box
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order, British: medal reward: Royal Victorian Medal, Silver, 1902
order, British: Royal Victorian Order, Commander of the (CVO)
Order case
original art: bust
original art: drawing
original art: ornament: model, ship
original art: picture
original art: sculpture: statue
Ornamental compass
other structure: dock
Painting
personal gear: box, snuff
personal gear: chain, watch ?
personal symbol: coat of arms
personal symbol: coat of arms, Bristol
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personal symbol: coat of arms, royal (post 1837)
personal symbol: coat of arms, royal(Victorian)
Photograph album
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presentation artifact: casket, freedom
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presentation artifact: tankard
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Star
Star: Royal Victorian Order, 1st class
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surveying & navigational t&e: compass, ornamental
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
Tankard
Technical drawing
Telescope
The decagonal barrel of this non-achromatic telescope is made of mahogany and is tapered. It has a single brass draw tube and brass fittings, including a sliding objective lens cover, of which the slide is missing. The eyepiece is also missing.Night telescope
Topographical model
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Topographic model
Trade sign
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visual communication t&e: code, signal
Wall hanging
water transport: cargo vessel: East Indiaman
water transport: fighting vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: 100 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: armoured vessel (Russian)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship, armoured barbette (Japanese)
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, protected (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: torpedo boat (Chilian)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged)
water transport: model, exhibition: mirror backed model(decked: equipped: half: starboard)
water transport: passenger vessel: liner
water transport: passenger vessel: wherry, Thames
water transport: recreation vessel: barge, royal (Prince Frederick's)
water transport: sailing vessel: schooner, topsail
water transport: steam vessel: screw, 6
water transport: steam vessel: screw, twin
water transport: steam vessel: yacht
water transport: training vessel
water transport: training vessel: training ship (HMS)
water transport: unknown function: ship
water transport accessory: figurehead (mermaid)
water transport accessory: figurehead(three quarter length)
Wine glass
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brown colour wash
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lithograph, coloured
lithograph, tinted
mahogany
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metal: brass [fittings]
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Abbott, Lemuel Francis
Ackermann, Charles, & Co
Adams, Edgar Tarry
Atkins, William Edward
Barker, Thomas Jones
Berge, Matthew
Biard, François-Auguste
Brett, John
Brierly, Oswald Walters
British School
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British School, 19th century
Britten, Kenneth
Broadhead, Maisie Maud
Burgess, Walter W
Campion, George Bryant
Cassell & Co. Ltd
Chevanne
Clare, T.
Cooke, Edward William
Cooper, ThomasJoshua
Cousins, Henry
Cruikshank, George
D.G.& L.
Dallmeyer
Danby, Thomas
Dawson, Nelson
Dawson, Willoughby Pudsey
Dixon, Charles Edward
Duke, Paul
Dutton, Thomas Goldsworthy
Egerton, Mary Augusta Phipps
Elkington & Co
Elkington & Co. Ltd
Everett, (Herbert Barnard) John
F. C. Gould & Son
Francis Frith & Co
Fullwood, Albert Henry
Gainsborough, Thomas
George Fox, George
Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd
Gover, H. C.
Graff, James
Graves, Henry
Hanhart, Michael
Hanhart, Nicholas
Harris, Douglas D.
Harris, William Snow
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Herschel, Maria Sophia
Herschel, Matilda Rose
Hogarth, J.
Hook, James Clark
Horsley, J. C.
Howard, W.
Hunt, Edmund Aubrey
J. R. Gaunt & Son Limited
Janet Taylor & Co
Jansen
Janssen
John I. Thornycroft & Co. Ltd
Joy, after George William
Keliher, J J, & Co
Knell, William Adolphus
Kneller, Godfrey
Laird and Company Ltd
Lairds
Lang, Oliver W.
Laurence, Samuel
Leggatt
Leigh, Toby
Leoni Lee & Coxhead
Lewis, Charles George
London, Midland & Scottish Railway Company
Lupton, Thomas Goff
M & N Hanhart
M. H. & Co
Mandeville, H.
Maull & Fox
Moore, Claude T. S.
Morris, Walton & Co
Munday, John
Murray, John
North, Frederick
O'Neil, Henry Nelson
Ouless, Walter William
Payne, Arthur E.
Pearce, Stephen
Phillips, Thomas
Pitts, William
Prout, Samuel
Read
Read & Co
Rigaud, John Francis
Roberson, Peter
Roberts, E
Rogerson & Tuxford
Scott, James
Sevior, Clifford
Shanks, Henry Hardy Priest
Shee, Martin Archer
Simpson, John
Smythe, Lionel Percy
Stokes (Australasia) Pty Ltd
Stone, Richard
Summers and Payne
T & J. Bragg Ltd
Taylor, Janet
Thames Iron Works Shipbuilding & Engineering Co
Theed, William
Thomson, Ellen Poulett
Thornycroft, Thomas
Trayler & Co
Turner, Charles
unidentified
Unknown
Vanderbank, Pieter
Verney, John
Wagstaff, C. E.
Walker, William
Wallis & Wallis
Walton, Charles William
Watts, George Frederick
Working Men's Educational Union
Wyllie, William Lionel
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Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859
Benin Expedition, 1897
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798
Loss of the Princess Alice, 1878
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
Second Boer War, 1889-1902
Sinking of Elingamite, 1902
Transit of Venus, 1874
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Admella (1857)
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Black Prince (1861)
Cap Trafalgar (1913)
Carmania (1905)
Conqueror (1876)
Conway (1839)
Defence (1861)
Dispatch (1806)
Duke of Wellington (1852)
Elthetis fl.1799 (Spanish galleon)
Ethalion (1797)
Excellent (HMS)
Fox (1855)
Fuji (1896)
Gleaner (1890)
Great Eastern (1858)
Gweneve 1889
Hecla (1839)
Joyeuse (1898)
Lucifer (1913)
Medic (1899)
Naiad 1797 (HMS)
Novgorod 1873
Penguin (1876)
Royal Charlotte 1824 (HMY)
Royal Charter 1855 [British]
San Jose (1783)
Santa Brigida (1785)
Satanita (1897)
Sir George Seymour (1844)
Triton 1796 (HMS)
Vernon III (1860)
Victoria and Albert (1855)
Victorian (1895)
Victorian (1904)
Victorian (1935)
Victory (1765)
Warrior (1860)
Warspite (1833)
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Arctic Convoys
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Death in the ice: the shocking story of Franklin's final voyage
Nelson, Navy, Nation
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Pirates
Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire
Time and Longitude
Traders: The East India Company and Asia
Turner's The Battle of Trafalgar
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Abbott, Lemuel Francis
Airy, George Biddell
Allin, Thomas
Arctic Council of Explorers
Back, George
Baily, Francis
Barrow, John
Baskcombe, W. B.
Bayly, Lewis
Beatty, David
Beechey, Frederick William
Bird, Edward Joseph
Bosanquet, Henry Theodore Augustus
Bridgeman, Francis Charles
British School
Britten, Kenneth
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
Campion, George Bryant
Chetwynd, John Henry
Childers, William Henry
City of Bristol
City of London
Clarke, Andrew
Corner, John T.
Cowan, Walter Henry
Cradock, Henry
Cruikshank, George
Cust, W
Dallmeyer, J. H.
Darby, George
Darling, Grace Horsley
Davies, L. G.
Digby, Henry
Dixon, Charles Edward
Dutch Forces
E. J. & W. Goldsmith Ltd
Earnshaw, Thomas
Eastlake, Charles Lock
Emery, George
Fawthrop, James
Fisher, John Arbuthnot
Fitzjames, James
Ford, John
Foster, Robert Lionel
Franklin, John
Frederick Leyland and Co.
Gill, Edwin
Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd
Gore, John
Graff, James
Greenwich Hospital Collection
Hamilton, Frederick Tower
Hardy, Thomas Masterman
Herschel, John Frederick William
Herschel, Julia Mary
Herschel, Matilda Rose
HMS
Hunton, T. D.
Jackson, Henry Bradwardine
Janssen, Pierre Jules Cesar
Jefferys, E Ffl
Jennings, Charles
Johnstone, George
Keppel, Henry
Key, Astley Cooper
Lang, Oliver W.
Large, Joseph
Legge, A K
Lewin, Terence Thornton
Linzee, Samuel Hood
Lloyd, Thomas
McKay, Patrick
Milne, Alexander
Milne, Archibald Berkeley
Money, James
Money, Robert
Money, William Taylor
Montagu, John
Murray, John
Museum of London
Naish, George Prideaux Brabant
Nelson, Horatio
Newman, Edward
Outram, Benjamin Fonseca
Palliser, Hugh
Parry, William Edward
Peel, William
Pierrepont, William
Pound, Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers
Primmer, William Charles
Prince of Wales
Pullen, Thomas C.
Queen Charlotte, Consort of George III
Queen Victoria
Rawson, Harry Holdsworth
Reynolds Bequest
Richardson, John
Roberson, Peter
Robinson, William B.
Ross, James Clark
Royal Victorian Yacht Club
Sabine, Edward
Scott, Robert Falcon
Shanks, Henry Hardy Priest
Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Slave, African
Stanfield, Clarkson
Sturdee, Frederick Charles Doveton
Thomas, Alan Brodrick
Turner, George
Victorian Humane Society
Victorian Naval Forces
VII, King Edward
Walker, Baldwin Wake
Watts, Isaac
Whewell, William
Wiggins, Harold
Woolley, Richard van der Riet
Wyllie, William Lionel
Yates, J. A.
Young, James
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Victorian
(1935) (Negative)
Victorian
(1895) (Glass plate negative)
Medal of the
Victorian
Humane Society (Medal cast)
Badge: Royal
Victorian
Order, 1st class (Order)
Star: Royal
Victorian
Order, 1st class (Order)
Silver Royal
Victorian
Medal 1902 (Decoration)
Royal
Victorian
Medal 1902 (Order)
Medal of the
Victorian
Humane Society (Medal cast)
Star: Royal
Victorian
Order, 1st class (Star)
Star: Royal
Victorian
Order, 1st class (Star)
Star: Royal
Victorian
Order, 1st class (Star)
Badge: Royal
Victorian
Order, Commander (Order)
Badge: Royal
Victorian
Order, Lieutenant (Order)
Miniature: Royal
Victorian
Order, Commander (Miniature medal)
Victorian
Royal Yacht at Fleet Review (Drawing)
Badge: Royal
Victorian
Order, 1st class (Badge)
Badge: Royal
Victorian
Order, 1st class (Badge)
Badge: Royal
Victorian
Order, 1st class (Badge)
Uniforms of the late
Victorian
? navy (Print)
Badge: Royal
Victorian
Order, Commander (Order)
Star: Royal
Victorian
Order, 1st class (Star)
Badge: Royal
Victorian
Order, Commander (Order)
Badge and star: Royal
Victorian
Order, 1st class (Order)
Torso of a woman in
Victorian
dress (on reverse) (Drawing)
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