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armament accessory: bed, mortar
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Ackermann, Rudolph
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Albert C. Wilson
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Crimean War, 1854-1856
Crimean War: Baltic Campaign, 1854-1855
Founding of the Royal Yacht Racing Club, 1925
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A chart of the coast of England and Scotland from Flamborough Head to Cape Wrath including the Orkney Islands Revised by J. S. Hobbs FRGS 1860 (Chart)
West Coast of Scotland with the Hebrides or Western Isles (Chart)
[None] (Chart)
South coast of England from the Owers to Bridport London published by James Imray and Son Ltd and Norie & Wilson No 156 Minories (Chart)
Sheets 2 and 3 Harwich to Flamborough Head London published by Chas Wilson (late Nore & Wilson) at the Navigation Warehouse & Naval Academy No 157 Leadenhall Street 1875 (Chart)
John Dollond F.R.S. (Print)
Dry compass
Base plate
Box lid
Plan of Englishmen's Harbour in Oroolong, one of the Pelew Islands, by Hy. Wilson Junr. (Chart)
Workbook, volume 1, compiled by J. R. T. Wilson (Manuscript)
Discovery (1901) off an icy cape, from the 'South Polar Times' (Photographic print)
The return of the sun after 122 days of darkness, from the 'South Polar Times' (Photographic print)
Cover of the first number of the 'South Polar Times' (Photographic print)
Workbook, volume 1, compiled by P. E. Wilson (Manuscript)
Cape de Verde Islands. London (E.) Published by Chas. Wilson, (late Norie & Wilson) 156 Minories. 1885 (Chart)
The Black Sea &c chiefly from the Russian surveys compiled by J.S. Hobbs FRGS (Chart)
A chart of the Adriatic Sea or Gulf of Venice with the Ionian Islands and adjacent coast drawn from the surveys made by Order of the Austrian, English and Neopolitan governments by J. S. Hobbs hydrographer (Chart)
A chart of the Adriatic Sea or Gulf of Venice with the Ionian Islands and adjacent coast drawn from the surveys made by Order of the Austrian, English and Neopolitan governments by J. S. Hobbs hydrographer (Chart)
Plan de Sanales, De La Capitano De Puerto De Curanipe a loa Buques fondeades, o que venganaa fondear en su Bahia (Plan of signals from the captain of the Port of Curanipe to the ships anchored, or wishing to anchor in the bay) Santiago Marzo 9 de 1855, Aprobado El Ministro de Marina. Pedro Nolasco Vidalez (Signals)
Pirate hunting, the Lowestoft Armed Smacks, 'Boy Alfred' and 'I'll Try' in the North Sea (Pictures)
The first rate three-decker HMS Hibernia (1804) at Malta. (Calotype negative)
Caleta Buena - plan of soundings November 1882. Benj. Handley (Chart)
Chart of the North Sea comprising all the modern surveys, drawn by J.S. Hobbs, FRGS, hydrographer (Chart)
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