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Schools at Cutty Sark
Join interactive tours and cross-curricular sessions aboard our Victorian clipper ship
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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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200 years of HMS Beagle: Charles Darwin, Galapagos, and an enduring legacy
On 11 May 1820 the ship that would later carry Charles Darwin to the Galapagos Islands was launched. Find out more about the remarkable legacy of HMS Beagle.