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armament accessory: carrier, hot-shot
armament t&e, ammunition: cannonball
armament t&e, ammunition: shot, bar
armament t&e, ammunition: shot, grape
armament t&e, artillery: gun
armament t&e, firearm: musket
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ceremonial artifact: banner
ceremonial artifact: jack(fragment)
ceremonial artifact: monument
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clothing, footwear: uniform: stocking(pair)
clothing, outerwear: flounce, dress
clothing, outerwear: uniform: breeches, white
clothing, outerwear: uniform: dress uniform, Lieutenant's
clothing, outerwear: uniform: trousers, blue-striped
clothing, outerwear: uniform: uniform, Admiral's
clothing, outerwear: uniform: waistcoat, dress
coin, commemorative engraved: half-crown
Combined knife and fork
commemorative artifact: bottle
commemorative artifact: box, patch
commemorative artifact: box, tobacco
commemorative artifact: doorstop
commemorative artifact: goblet
commemorative artifact: ribbon
commemorative artifact: screen, hand
commemorative artifact: square, linen
commemorative artifact: tie, curtain
commemorative artifact: vinaigrette
Copenhagen ice pails with lion mask handles
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food service t&e: knife & fork(combined)
food service t&e: plate
food service t&e: rations: biscuit, ship's
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Full hull model; Georgian; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model
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Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Scenic model
Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set
furniture, relic: box, writing
furniture, ship's: chest, travelling(naval officer's)
Georgian
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household accessory: jug, toby
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land transport, animal powered: carriage
Life mask
lighting device: taperstick
Locket
Longcase clock
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Medal
medal, British: campaign medal: Boulton's Trafalgar Medal
medal, British: campaign medal: General Service Medal 1793-1840
medal, British: campaign medal: Naval Gold medal (Captains) for The Battle of the Trafalgar, 1805
medal, British: campaign medal: Naval Gold medal (Captains) for The Battle of Trafalgar, 1798
medical & psychological t&e: dish
medical & psychological t&e: saw
Miniature
Mourning ring
Mug
Musket
Necklace
Needlecase
Octant
original art: figure group
original art: picture, cut paper
original art: sampler
original art: sculpture: bust
original art: sculpture: mask, life
Painting
Patch box
Pendant
personal gear: chest, seaman's
personal gear: needlecase
personal gear: wig
personal symbol: coat of arms
personal symbol: coat of arms, City of London
personal symbol: coat of arms, Royal
personal symbol: flag
Pike
Pin
Pipe
Pistol
Plank-on-frame
Plate
presentation artifact: boatswain's call
presentation artifact: box, freedom
presentation artifact: tankard
presentation artifact: tea-urn
Presentation Small-Sword
Presentation Sword
Print
regulative & protective t&e: cat-o'-nine-tails
Ribbon
Rifle
Rigged model
Sails set
Sampler
Saucer
Scenic model
Sea chest
Seal
Sea Service Pistol
Seven barrelled volley gun
Ship's biscuit
Shirt
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surgical saw
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
Sword
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Taperstick
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timekeeper: clock, long case
Tobacco box
Toby jug
Token - halfpenny
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Travelling trunk
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Vinaigrette
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water transport: fighting vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 5th rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 38 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 74 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 74 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 100 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 100 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: warship (Spain)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped)
water transport: model, instructional: full hull model(decked: equipped)
water transport: model, instructional: full hull model(decked: rigged)
water transport: model, vessel: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails set)
water transport: model, vessel: skeleton model(decked)
water transport: service vessel: barge, funeral
water transport: service vessel: barge, livery
water transport: service vessel: troopboat
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coloured aquatint
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cotton
cotton?
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etching and engraving with publisher's watercolour
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gold wire
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ivory
ivory?
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mahogany veneer
marble
metal
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metal: brass
metal: copper
metal: iron
metal: silver-gilt
metal: steel [blade]
metal: tin
metal [pins]
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mica
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organic: baize
organic: cord [tails]
organic: leather
organic: silk
organic: twine
organic: wool
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stoneware
synthetic: glass
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walnut
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wheat flour
wood
wood (probably)
wood: mahogany
wood: pine
wood [handle]
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Abbott, Lemuel Francis
Ackermann, Rudolph
Arnald, George
B. Wright & Co
Backhuysen, Ludolf
Baldwin & Co.
Barlow
Barnaschina, Peter
Bateman, Hester
Bluck
Bone, Henry
Bowman, Thomas
Bow Porcelain Co
Briggs, Henry Perronet
British School, 18th century
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Brun, Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le
Bryants Trunk and Bucket Warehouse
Burkett, Thomas
Busby, T. L.
C. James
Cafe, William
Chamberlain, William
Chamberlin, Mason
Cleveley, John
Craig, William Marshall
Cruikshank, George
Cundee, James
Cunst, Jasper
Devis, Arthur William
Dighton, Denis
Dighton, Robert
Droz, J.P.
Eastlake, Charles Lock
Elmes, James
Firmin & Sons Limited
Flaxman, John
Gabriel Bray
Gill, J.
Gill, Mary
Gillray, James
Godby, F.
H., S.
Hall, William
Hedridge, Young &
Heideloff, Nikolaus Wilhelm von
Hill, John
Hinton, W J
Humphrey, H.
J. Harrison & Co.
James Whittle & Richard Holmes Laurie
John Salter
Küchler, Conrad Heinrich
Lacey & Co.
Luny, Thomas
Makepeace, Robert
McLean, Thomas
Mcquin
Merke, Henri
Morisset, James
Mudie, J.
Nock, H.
Peter & William Bateman
Philips, Charles
Pingo, Lewis
Pitts, William
Plimer, Andrew
Pocock, Nicholas
Pugin, Augustus Charles
Renou, Timothy
Rigaud, John Francis
Romney, George
Roubiliac, Louis-Francois
Rowlandson, Thomas
Rysbrack, John Michael
Salmon, Robert
Serres, Dominic
Sheringham, John
Spode, Josiah
Stephan, Pierre
T. Fall, T.
Tegg, Thomas
Thompson, William
Turner, Daniel
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Walker, W. B.
Walton, John
Warwick
Webb, Thomas
West, Benjamin
Westall, Richard
Westmacott, after Richard
William, E.
Wilson, David
Wilson, J.
Wood & Caldwell
Wyon, Peter
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Capture of the Nereide, 1797
Death of Nelson, 1805
French Revolutionary Wars, 1792-1802
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Camperdown, 1797
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798
French Revolutionary Wars: Capture of the Africaine, 1801
Mutiny at Spithead, 1797
Mutiny at the Nore, 1797
Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815
Napoleonic Wars: Attack on Gaeta, 1815
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
Napoleonic Wars: Capture of Guadeloupe, 1810
Napoleonic Wars: Capture of Martinique, 1809
Napoleonic Wars: Capture of the Bergére, 1806
Napoleonic Wars: Capture of the Junon, 1809
Napoleonic Wars: Duckworth's action off San Domingo, 1806
Nine Years' War: Battle of Barfleur, 1692
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
Seven Years' War: Capture of Havana, 1762
War of Jenkins' Ear: Capture of Porto Bello, 1739
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Bellona (1760)
Bergere (captured 1806)
Britannia (1762)
Cambridge (1755)
Elthetis fl.1799 (Spanish galleon)
Ethalion (1797)
Foudroyant (1798)
Gloire
H.M.S. Vanguard
Junon fl.1809 [French navy]
L'Orient fl.1798 [French navy]
Minotaur (1793)
Morgan fl.1796 (French Privateer)
Naiad 1797 (HMS)
Nereide fl.1797 [French navy]
Phoebe (1795)
Pickle (1809)
Queen Charlotte (1790)
Royal George (1756)
Royal Naval uniform regulations 1787-1891: Midshipmen
Royal Naval uniform regulations 1795-1812: Flag Officers (full dress)
San Nicolas [Spanish navy]
Santa Brigida fl.1799 (Spanish galleon)
Santissima Trinidad
Santissima Trinidada 1769 (man-of-war: Spain)
Santissima Trinidad fl.1805 (Spanish navy)
Sirius (1797)
Suffisante 1795 (HMS)
Superieure fl.1803 [HMS]
Thunderer 1783 (HMS)
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Achmuty, Arthur
Allen, Williamfl
Baily, Joseph
Baldwin & Co.
Beatty, William
Bentinck, John Albert
Bentinck, William
Berry, Edward
Bertrand, Count Henri-Gratien
Bishop, James
Bligh, George Miller
Blockhead, William
Blow, G fl.1805
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Brien, Captain E. O.
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British Institution
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Bunce, William
Burr, Edward Thomas
Busby, T. L.
Byng, The Honourable John
C. James
Cambell, James
Campbell, John
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Chevalier, Henry Louis
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Collingwood, Cuthbert
Collingwood, Francis Edward
Collingwood, George Newnham
Collingwood, Mary Newnham
Collingwood, Sarah Newnham
Collingwood Family
Cooper, Anthony Ashley
Cornwallis, William
Corporation of the Royal Exchange Assurance
Croix, Jasper de Ste
Damer, Mrs
Daniel, William
Davison, Alexander
Day, Bartholomew George Smith
Deans, Robert, Vice-Adm, 1792-1867
Digby, Henry
Dighton, Robert
Duckworth, John Thomas
Emmerson, George
Fawssett, A. C.
Gabriel Bray
Galpin, Miss
Gill, J.
Gill, Mary
Gore, John
Grant
Greenwich Hospital
Hamilton, Emma
Hamilton, William
Hardy, Thomas Masterman
Harman, William
Hennessey, John
Hicks, William
Hilton, Stephen
HM Admiralty
Hood, Samuel
Hood, William John Thompson
Howe, Richard
III, Sultan Selim
Indian Navy
King George III
King William III
King William IV
Lecock, Michael
Leslie, William
Lloyd's Copenhagen Committee
Lord Bexley
McArthur, John
McConnell, Frederick
Merchants of the City of London
Mr Guitan
Nelson, Catherine
Nelson, Horatia
Nelson, Horatio
Nelson, Thomas
Newnham, William
Olavarrieta, Blas de Lezo y
Orford, Robert Walpole: 1st Earl of
Parker, Richard
Pasco, John
Pellew, Edward
Perry, Hugh
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Piontkowski, Captain Karol Fryderyk Juliusz
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Queen Victoria
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Roach, T.
Roteley, Lewis
Rotely, Jane Douglas
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Royal United Service Institution
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Scott, Reverend Alexander John
Sir John Eamer, John
Smith, Neil
Spence
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The Marine Society & Sea Cadets
Thorpe, William
Tomlinson, Nicholas
Trafalgar Lodge of Oddfellows
Vernon, Edward
Walter Burke, Walter
Waters, Billy
Wood & Caldwell
Worthington, Humble & Holland
Wykeham-Martin, Julia
Wyon, Peter
Young, James
Young, W (RN)
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The Fall of Nelson, Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 (Painting)
Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, 1758-1805 (Painting)
Mug
Gold City of London freedom box (Freedom Box)
Cup
Rating's trousers (Trousers)
Needlecase
Dress flounce
Ribbon
Locket
Jug
Jug
Cut-paper picture
'A Centinel on the Pallas's gangway, Jany 1775' [Bray album] (Drawing)
Seaman leaning on a gun on the 'Pallas' [Bray album] (Drawing)
Silver dinner plate (Plate)
Boatswain's call
Gold City of London Freedom Box (Freedom box)
The Funeral Ceremony of Lord Nelson, in St Paul's Cathedral, 9th of Jany 1806 (Print)
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