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Astronomical and navigational instruments
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3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models
Astrolabes and quadrants
Celestial navigation
Charting instruments
Compasses
Course, speed and distance indicators
Electronic navigation
Exploring the Arctic
Globes
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Herschel family
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A Sea of Symbols
Captain George Pechell Mends (circa 1814 – 1871)
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Green Blackwall collection
Herschel family
Lieutenant Gabriel Bray (1750–1823)
Maritime Art Greenwich
Michael Graham-Stewart collection
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Nicholas Pocock
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Opium Wars
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armament t&e, artillery: gun
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armament t&e, firearm: musketoon
armament t&e, firearm: rifle
Astronomical compendium
Atlas oversize
Backstaff
Backstaff horizon vane
Backstaff shadow vane
Backstaff sight vane
Backstaff vane
baseboard
Blunderbuss
Boatswain's call
Chart
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Coat of arms
Compass bowl
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Compass card
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Dividers
documentary artifact: coin, commemorative engraved
documentary artifact: globe, celestial(Islamic)
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial
drafting t&e: dividers
Flask
food service t&e: flask, pewter
Frame model
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full hull model
Full hull model; Frame model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model
Full hull model; Frame model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Stand
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Frame model; Rigged model
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Baseboard
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Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set; Plank-on-frame
Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set; Scenic model; Gun
Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set; Scenic model; Launch
furniture: chest
Gun
Hanger
Horizon vane? for backstaff
Horizon vane for backstaff
Hour-glass
Islamic globe
Launch
MAP-BOUND
Mariner's astrolabe
Mariner's quadrant
Medal
medical & psychological t&e: mortar
Mortar
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Navy Board, Full hull model
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Nimcha
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optical t&e: telescope(non-achromatic)
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Ship Model
Sighte vane for backstaff
Sight vane for backstaff
sound communication t&e: boatswain's call
Stand
surveying & navigational t&e: astrolabe, mariner's
surveying & navigational t&e: backstaff
Sword
Table globe
Telescope
timekeeping t&e: hour-glass(60 minute ship's glass)
water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 5th rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 40 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 48-50 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 60 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 90 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 100 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: galleon
water transport: fighting vessel: warship (Spanish)
water transport: model, design: skeleton model(decked: rigged)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged)
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(rigged: decked: equipped)
water transport: model, vessel: skeleton model(decked: rigged)
water transport: sailing vessel
water transport: sailing vessel: ship, 4 masted
Wheellock Rifle
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Adams, Robert
Anthonisz, Aert
Bassett-Lowke Ltd
Boazio, Giovanni Battista
Bol, Ferdinand
Borcht, Hendrick van der
British School, 17th century
Browne, J
Bry, Johann Theodor de
Buttall, J.
Bylaer, Gerard van
Calderinus, D.
Cole, Humfrey
Colom, Jacob Aertsz
D'Angelo, Jacopo
Dahl, Michael
English School
English School, 16th century
English School, 17th century
Eszler, Jacobus
Garner, Will
Garnish, John
Gottfried
Jordan
Kneller, Godfrey
Lees, James
Lely, Peter
Mercator, Michael
Mustafa
Passe, Simon van de
Peter, Basil Grenville
Poggini, D.
Ptolemy, Claudius
Robert Spence
Ryther, Augustine
Schellinks, Willem
School, Netherlandish
Seller, John
Spence, Robert
Storck, Abraham
Trici, I.
Tuttell, Thomas
Ubelin, Georgius
Unknown
Velde, Willem van de, the Younger
Vroom, Hendrick Cornelisz
Wride, Philip
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probably Spain
Stoke Fleming
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Anglo-Spanish War: Spanish Armada, 1588
Attack on Spanish fleet at Cadiz, 1596
Exploration: Drake's First Voyage, 1577-1580
Italian Wars: Battle of the Solent, 1545
Second Anglo-Dutch War: Attack on the Medway, 1667
Second Anglo-Dutch War; 1665-1667
Second Anglo–Dutch War: Four Days Fight, 1666
Wreck of HMS Association, 1707
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Kingfisher 1675
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Prince Royal (1610)
Royal Prince 1610
San Juan de Sicilia
Sovereign of the Seas 1637
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Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
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Time and Longitude
Turmoil and Tranquillity
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Anderson, Roger Charles
Beg, Haj Mahmud
Blount, Charles
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Cavendish, Thomas
Columbus, Christopher
Cottenell, Howard H.
Digsby
Drake, Francis
Hawkins, John
Henry VIII
Hopsonn, Thomas
Hudson, Henry
Hunsdon, Lord
King Philip II of Spain
King William III
King William IV
Medrana, Diego de
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National Maritime Museum
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Pepys, Samuel
Peter, Gill
Pett, Peter
Prince Maurice of Orange
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Mary, Consort of King George V
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Ruyter, Michel Adriaenszoon de
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Spinney, J. David
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Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Baseboard
Bronze pestle (Mortar)
Chest
Royal coat of arms of King William III (Coat of arms)
Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set; Scenic model; Launch
Warship(1588); Galleon; English (Full hull model; Rigged model; Plank-on-frame)
'Naseby', 80-86 guns (Full hull model; Frame model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Stand)
Matthew (1497); Passenger/cargo vessel; Exploration/research vessel; Caravel (Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set; Plank-on-frame)
Geographiae opus novissima traductione e Grecorum archetypis castigatissime pressum ... (Atlas oversize)
The 'Royal Prince' and other Vessels at the Four Days Battle, 1–4 June 1666 (Painting)
Portrait of a Gentleman, circa 1596 (Painting)
Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter (1607–1676) (Painting)
Columbus put in irons in Hayti, 1498 (Print)
Virginia 1585. Virginian natives building their boats (Print)
Mary Rose (1509); Warship; 60 gun (Full hull model; Rigged model)
Terrestrial table globe (Table globe)
Bronze mortar (Mortar)
Bucaniers of America : or, a true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West Indies... (Rare book)
The English pilot : the first book: describing the ... northern navigation ... (Atlas oversize)
Claudii Ptholemei Alexandrini philosophi cosmographia (Atlas oversize)
Insula divi Jacobi est clarissima omnium quae sunt in ova Affricae ex adverso Cap Virid ... (Chart)
Thomas Cavendish (1560-92), Sir Francis Drake (1540?-96) and Sir John Hawkins (1532-95) (Painting)
Backstaff
Medal commemorating Drake's voyage, 1577-80 (Medal)
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