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Thomas Button North-West Passage expedition 1612–13
In 1612, explorer Thomas Button sailed in two ships, Resolution and the Discovery, in search of the North-West Passage.
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Life at a Royal Naval Dockyard
Royal Naval Dockyards were used to build navy ships during the 17th and 18th centuries. The Navy Board was responsible for running them.
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Lloyd’s Register Survey Reports, on the move!
Regular readers may be familiar with the Lloyd's Register Survey Reports; a collection of detailed surveys on ships' materials and construction, used by underwriters and others in the shipping industry for reliable information on these vessels. You may not be aware that this collection was on loan to the National Maritime Museum for some 50 years.
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Research guide H5: Lloyd's: Registers held by the National Maritime Museum
This guide provides information about Lloyd's Register of Shipping as an aid to research. The National Maritime Museum's Library has copies dating from 1764 to date
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The sinking of the Atlantic Conveyor: Falklands conflict oral history
Naval volunteer Howard Ormerod shares his memories of 25 May 1982, when a container ship requisitioned by the British government was hit and sunk by Argentinian forces.
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