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aerospace transport: airship
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surveying & navigational t&e: binnacle(picket boat compasss)
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass(For liquid compass)
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, dry
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: circle, azimuth
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's(in binnacle)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, submarine liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's range finder: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mining
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, range finder: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: heeling error instrument
surveying & navigational t&e: mirror, azimuth
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(8 day)
water transport: exploration/research vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: battlecruiser
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water transport accessory: inclinometer
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Captain Chetwynd
Kelvin & James White Ltd
Thomson, William
White, James
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Antarctic Exploration: British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913
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World War I: Battle of the Falkland Islands, 1914
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Inflexible 1907
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Terra Nova fl.1910
Triad fl.1933
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Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames
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