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Aft section plan
Anchor model
armament accessory: carriage, pivoting gun
armament accessory: gun truck, pivoting
armament accessory: model, gun turret
armament accessory: turret, gun
armament t&e, artillery: gun
armour, general arrangement
armour, profile
Armour plate model
barrelmaking t&e: iron, beek(cooper's)
barrelmaking t&e: iron, flagging(cooper's)
Battery deck plan
Beam
Beam model
Boat badge
Boat model
Boat model; Grappling iron or anchor
body
Box containing roving iron parts
Bridge deck plan
Builder's, Sectional model
cabins
carving
carving, bow
Casket
Caulking iron
commemorative artifact?: hammer & irons, caulking
Componenet model
Component model
Component model; Sectional model
Cutter
deck, covering
deck, poop
deck, spar
Deck section
Design, Full hull model
Design, Half block model
Design, Sectional model
docking
documentary artifact: ship plan: armour, general arrangement
documentary artifact: ship plan: armour, profile
documentary artifact: ship plan: body
documentary artifact: ship plan: cabins
documentary artifact: ship plan: carving
documentary artifact: ship plan: carving, bow
documentary artifact: ship plan: carving, figurehead
documentary artifact: ship plan: carving, stern
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, battery
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, bridges
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, covering
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, forecastle
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, main
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, platform
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, poop
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, spar
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, superstructure
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper(part)
documentary artifact: ship plan: docking
documentary artifact: ship plan: general arrangement
documentary artifact: ship plan: hold
documentary artifact: ship plan: hold(part)
documentary artifact: ship plan: holes in bottom
documentary artifact: ship plan: iron plating, profile
documentary artifact: ship plan: lines
documentary artifact: ship plan: poop
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile(part)
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard(fore part)
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard(part)
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, outboard
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, outboard(part)
documentary artifact: ship plan: rig
documentary artifact: ship plan: sail
documentary artifact: ship plan: section
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, aft
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, construction
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, forward
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, midship
documentary artifact: ship plan: sheer
documentary artifact: ship plan: shell expansion
documentary artifact: ship plan: watertight compartments, general arrangement
Equipment model
Equipment model; Anchor model
Equipment model; Swivel block model
Fire iron
food processing t&e: gridiron
Forecastle deck plan
Forward section plan
Frame model
Frame modelctional model
Full hull model
general arrangement
Grappling iron or anchor
Gridiron and glass vial
Gun model
Gun turret model
Half block model
Half hull model
Half midship
Hinge
hold
holes in bottom
household accessory: table runner
Inboard profile plan
Instructional, Full hull model
Instructional, Sectional model
iron
iron, beek
iron, bent
iron, branding
iron, caulking
iron, flagging
iron, jerry
iron, making
iron, plane
iron, raming
iron, reaming
iron, roving
iron, set
iron, soldering
Iron bar
Iron beam
iron blade of a plane
Iron bolt
Iron bracket
Iron cleat
Iron fitting
Iron fragment
Iron object
Iron ore
Iron plate
iron plating, profile
Iron plug
Iron stamp
iron staple
Laurie's New Plan of London and its Environs
Leg-irons
lines
Longitudinal model
Lower deck plan
Main deck plan
Map
Map of London 1828
metalworking t&e: iron, caulking(boiler maker's)
metalworking t&e: iron, raming(shipwrights)
metalworking t&e: iron, soldering(shipwrights)
Midship model
Model
Model caulking irons
multiple use artifact: iron, branding(shipwrights)
multiple use artifact: iron, soldering(shipwrights)
Ordnance Model
Ordnance model
Ordnance Model; Gun model; Sectional model
Ordnance model; Gun turret model
original art: picture, silk
original art: picture, woolwork
Outboard profile plan
Painting
personal symbol: broad arrow
picture, silk
picture, woolwork
plane
plane blade
plane iron
Plane iron
plane irons
Plank-on-frame
Plate model
Platform deck plan
Plating model
presentation artifact: casket
profile
relic, ship: iron fragment
relic, ship: iron object
relic, ship: iron ore
relic: bar, iron
relic: bracket, iron
relic: fitting, iron
relic: plate, iron
relic: plug, iron
Restraining irons
rig
sail
Scenic model
Se
section
section, construction
section, midship
Sectional model
Sectional model; Beam
Sectional model; Gun model
Sectional model; Half hull model; Midship model
Sectional model; Iron beam
Sectional model; Longitudinal model
Sectional model; Midship model
Sectional model; Midship model; Plank-on-frame
Sectional model; Plating model
Sectional model Frame modelctional model
Sectional modelPlate model
set, iron
sheer
shell expansion
Ship's badge
shipbuilding t&e: iron(shipwrights)
shipbuilding t&e: iron, caulking
shipbuilding t&e: iron, caulking(shipwrights)
shipbuilding t&e: iron, jerry(shipwrights)
shipbuilding t&e: iron, making(shipwrights)
shipbuilding t&e: iron, set(shipwrights)
shipbuilding t&e: iron, treenail(shiprights)
shipbuilding t&e: set, iron(shipwrights)
Silk picture
Stern carving
Stern model
Stern model; Sectional model
Swivel block model
Table runner
Technical drawing
Tin containing roving iron parts
Upper deck plan
Viscometer environmental chamber
watertight compartments, general arrangement
water transport: cargo vessel: clipper
water transport: fighting vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 4 gun boat (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 40 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 80 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 81 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: armoured ship, iron
water transport: fighting vessel: battery, floating (iron: HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battery, floating (ironclad: HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battery, floating iron (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship, broadside (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship, broadside ironclad (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship, broadside ironclad (wood: HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship, central battery ironclad (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship, ironclad
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship, ironclad (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship ca.1650
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship ca.1760
water transport: fighting vessel: corvette, central battery ironclad (wood: HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: corvette, iron (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate, 38 gun
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate, iron (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate, ironclad (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate, ironclad battleship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate, iron paddle (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: galleon
water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat, flatiron (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat, iron (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat, iron paddle (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat, paddle (iron: HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunvessel, iron paddle (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: iron-cased ship
water transport: fighting vessel: ironclad
water transport: fighting vessel: ironclad (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: paddle vessel, iron (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: ram, armoured (turret ship)
water transport: fighting vessel: ship, iron-cased (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: ship, ironclad (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: ship, iron screw
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, central battery ironclad (composite: HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: turret ship, ironclad (HMS)
water transport: model, design: block model(decked: half)
water transport: model, design: block model(half)
water transport: model, design: full hull model(decked)
water transport: recreation vessel: yacht, iron (HMY)
water transport: sailing vessel
water transport: sailing vessel: barque, iron
water transport: sailing vessel: ship
water transport: sailing vessel: ship, clipper
water transport: service vessel: packet, paddle (iron: HMS)
water transport: service vessel: storeship, iron (HMS)
water transport: service vessel: tank vessel, iron (HMS)
water transport: service vessel: tender, paddle (iron: HMS)
water transport: service vessel: troopship, iron (HMS)
water transport: service vessel: tug, dockyard (paddle: iron: HMT)
water transport: steam vessel
water transport: steam vessel: screw, single
water transport: steam vessel: yacht
water transport accessory: anchor, iron stock
water transport accessory: badge, boat
water transport accessory: badge, ship's
water transport accessory: block, iron swivel
water transport accessory: bolt, iron
water transport accessory: cleat, iron
water transport accessory: model, anchor
water transport accessory: model, block
water transport component: beam, iron (plan for connecting beams to ship's side)
water transport component: beam: knee, iron (plan for connecting)
water transport component: deck: beam, lower deck
water transport component: deck: beam, main deck
water transport component: frame: plate, iron
water transport component: frame: plate section
water transport component: midship
water transport component: midship: armour plating
water transport component: midship: beam (method of connecting with iron knees)
water transport component: midship: beam, iron
water transport component: midship: beam, iron (plan for connecting)
water transport component: midship: frame (iron and wood construction)
water transport component: midship: frame, longitudinal
water transport component: midship: gundeck (gun port)
water transport component: midship: iron beam, composite
water transport component: midship: iron cased
water transport component: midship: knees, iron (method of connecting with beam)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(beam)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(cutaway: deck: midship: side)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(cutaway: decked: half: midship: side)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(decked: equipped: side: working)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(midship)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(midship: beam)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(midship: side)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(oar port)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(side: beam)
water transport component: model, exhibition: sectional model(cutaway: decked: half: midship)
water transport component: model, exhibition: sectional model(decked: equipped: half: longitudinal)
water transport component: model, exhibition: sectional model(midship: side)
water transport component: model, frame
water transport component: model, instructional: full hull model(cutaway: stern)
water transport component: model, instructional: sectional model(midship)
water transport component: model, plate
water transport component: oar port: scuttle hole tube (plan for plugging in iron-plated wood-built ships)
water transport component: stern
water transport component: ventilating system (port)
woodworking t&e: iron, bent(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: iron, caulking(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: iron, jerry(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: iron, making(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: iron, plane(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: iron, reaming(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: iron, roving(shipwrights)
Woolwork picture
written communication t&e: stamp, iron
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black ink
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blue wash
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coating: gilt
coating: stain
coating: varnish
copper
copper alloy
grey wash
iron
iron ore
linen backed paper
mahogany
metal
metal: alloy, copper
metal: brass
metal: copper
metal: iron
metal: lead
metal: steel
metal: unknown
Oil on canvas
oil on canvas
oil on panel
orange wash
organic: hemp
organic: silk
paint
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red ink
red wash
sienna ink
silk
silver
stain
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Alexander Mathieson & Sons Ltd
Angear, J.
Barnaby
Barnaby, Nathaniel
Barnaby, W.
Beaton, Edwin
Beaton, G H
Broughton, Alfred Edward
Champness, H. R.
Chief Constructor
Cradock, Henry
Deadman, H E
Deadman, M E
Edge, J W
Elliott, J.
Fincham, John
Galea, Luigi Maria
Harrison, John
Hellyer & Son
Holmes, Richard
Horton, P
Huddy, J B
Humpfries & Tennant
I. & H. Sorby
John Brown & Company
Johnson, Thomas
Kingdom Yacht Launch and Engineering Works
Knell, William Adolphus
Ladd, W
Laird Brothers
Laurie, Richard Holmes
Master Shipwright
Mathieson
Mitchell
Mitchell, T.
Molinson, M.
Moore, Alexander
Napier, N
Osborne, C. S.
Ouless, Philip John
Owen, W.
Peake, James
Read, Samuel
Reed, Edward James
Robert Napier & Sons
Robinson, M. S.
Robinson, Robert Spencer
Robinson, W. B.
Robinson, W. S.
Robinson, William B.
Samuda Brothers Ltd.
Saunders, R. P.
Sinclair, S
Sorby, I.
Sturdee, A B
Symonds, William
Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding Company
Thompson and Mercer
Thorne, F
Thornton, P.
Thorton, P.
United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)
Unknown
Walker, B. W.
Watts, I
Willes, Thomas
William Edye
William Fairbairn & Sons
Wm. Gilpin Senr & Co (TOOLS) Ltd
Yates, J. A.
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Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880
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Achilles (1863)
Agincourt (1865)
Arrow (1871)
Audacious (1869)
Bacchante (1876)
Badger (1872)
Baron von Humboldt (1854)
Bigbury Bay (1944)
Blazer (1870)
Bloodhound (1845)
Bloodhound (1871)
Boadicea (1875)
Bombay (1861)
Bonetta (1871)
Bounty (purchased 1787)
Buffalo (1854)
Bustard (1871)
C 60 1895
Caledonia (1862)
Caradoc (1847)
Comus (1878)
Crocodile (1867)
Cuckoo (1873)
Dee (1877)
Despatch 1869
Don 1877
Donola
Dover 1840
Dromedary (purchased 1873)
Dromedary 1862
Elizabeth (1873)
Enterprise (1864)
Enterprise (1919)
Erebus (1856)
Escort 1873
Esk 1877
Eurylaus 1877
Eurylaus 1939
Favorite 1864
Fearless 1864
Fidget (1872)
Fire Queen (1882)
Firequeen 1847
Fisgard II 1906
Forres 1918 (HMS)
Fox (1855)
Glatton (1855)
Grappler (1845)
Greenock (1849)
Halton Castle 1862
Harpy 1845
Hasty (1894)
Hector (1862)
Henry Grace a Dieu (1514)
Hercules (1868)
Highflyer (1851)
Highflyer (cancelled)
Himalaya (1853)
Hotspur (1870)
Humber (1876)
Inconstant (1868)
Industry (1854)
Invincible (1869)
Iris (1877)
Iron Duke (1870)
Jackal 1844
Jackel 1844
James Watt (1853)
Juno (1867)
Kite 1871
Lizard 1844
Lord Clyde 1864
Lord Warden (1865)
Magaera 1849
Marlborough 1855
Mastiff (1871)
Medina 1876
Medway (1876)
Meteor (1855)
Minotaur (1863)
Minx 1846
Monarch (1868)
Myrmodon 1861
Northumberland (1866)
Plucky (1870)
Rodney (HMS)
Royal Alfred 1864
Royal George (1756)
Royal Sovereign (HMS)
Royal Sovereign 1857
Slaney 1877
Supply 1854
Thrush (HMS)
Thunder (1855)
Torch (1845)
Trent (1877)
Trusty (1855)
Tweed (1877)
Victory (1765)
Volage (1869)
Warrior (1860)
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Enslavement and Resistance
The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire
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C. J. Mare & Co
Chatham Officers
Coles, Cowper Phipps
Deptford Dockyard
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Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport
HM Dockyard, Chatham
HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
Hobson, William Robert
Jay, Richard Thomas
John Brown & Company
John Elder & Co
Johnson, G.
Kingdom Yacht Launch and Engineering Works
Laird Brothers
Laird Brothers Ltd
Martinelli, A. S.
Maudslay, Sons & Field
Miller & Ravenhall Ltd
Millwall Iron Works
Money, Wigram and Son
Mr Sharer
Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Pembroke Dockyard
R. & H. Green Ltd
Redsull, Henry (designer)
Reed, Edward James
Rennie, J & W
Robert Napier & Sons
Samuda, J D A (proposed by)
Samuda Brothers Ltd.
Save the Victory Fund
Scott's Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd
Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd
South Kensington Museum
Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding Company
Turner, George
William Fairbairn & Sons
Woolwich Dockyard
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