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From resilience to resistance, two new paintings in the Atlantic Worlds gallery at the National Maritime Museum celebrate the history of pre-colonial Africa
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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
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Exploring the Arctic
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1st common seal of the town of Folkestone, late 13th century
Anchor model
barrelmaking t&e: oilstone(cooper's)
Brimstone Match
Brimstone match
Brimstone matches
building: lighthouse
Case for artificial lodestone
cast: badge cast: Edistone Lighthouse workers
cast: coin cast: token, halfpenny, Folkestone, 1796
cast: seal cast: Folkestone, 1st common seal, late 13C
ceremonial artifact: tombstone
Coin cast
Crook with stone
documentary artifact: ship plan: apparatus
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper
documentary artifact: ship plan: lines
documentary artifact: ship plan: lines & profile
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile(part)
documentary artifact: ship plan: section
Drawing
Equipment model
Equipment model; Anchor model; Half killick
Full hull model
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; Sails set
Grave marker
Half killick
Killick stone
lighting device: match, brimstone(6)
Lines & Profile
Lodestone
Lodestone and keeper
Lodestone stand
Lower deck plan
Medal cast
multiple use artifact: oilstone(shipwrights)
multiple use artifact: slipstone(shipwrights)
multiple use artifact: stone, grinding(shipwrights)
multiple use artifact: stone, slip(shipwrights)
oilstone
oil stone
oil stone fragment
Piece of Livingstone tree
Plank-on-frame
Quernstone
Red sandstone
relic: sandstone, red
Rigged model
Sails set
Seal cast
section
slipstone
Stand
Stand for lodestone
stone
stone, grinding
stone, slip
Stone and wooden crook
surveying & navigational t&e: loadstone
surveying & navigational t&e: lodestone
surveying & navigational t&e: lodestone(artificial magnet)
Technical drawing
Token, halfpenny, Folkestone, 1796
Upper deck plan
water transport: cargo vessel
water transport: fishing vessel: lugger
water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged: sails set)
water transport: sailing vessel
water transport: sailing vessel: lugger, Folkstone
water transport: service vessel: stone carrier
water transport: steam vessel: yacht
water transport accessory: killick
water transport accessory: killick(stone only)
water transport accessory: model, killick
Whetstone
whetstone
Wood
woodworking t&e: stone, grinding(shipwrights)
woodworking t&e: whetstone(ropemaker's)
woodworking t&e: whetstone(shipwrights)
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black ink
blue colourwash
blue ink
box: wood covered with black shark skin and lined with magenta silk
brass
brown colourwash
cork
cotton
inorganic: stone
inorganic: sulphur
iron
ivory
lead
lodestone
Magnetic ore
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metal: brass
metal: iron
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metal: magnetite rock
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mount: wood
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oil stone
organic: carborundum
organic: sandstone, red
organic: sulphur
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Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery
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Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, McClintock, 1857-1859
Exploration: Cook's First Voyage, 1768
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Adams, John
Bellamy, George
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Cremer, Mary
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Hobson, William Robert
Huddart, Joseph
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McClintock, Francis Leopold
Somers, George
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Lodestone stand
Seven brimstone matches (Brimstone matches)
A wooden brimstone match (Brimstone Match)
A wooden brimstone match (Brimstone Match)
A wooden brimstone match (Brimstone Match)
A wooden brimstone match (Brimstone Match)
A wooden brimstone match (Brimstone Match)
A wooden brimstone match (Brimstone Match)
Lodestone
oilstone
Unnamed Stone Carrier (1812) (Technical drawing)
65ft Stone Carrier (no date) (Technical drawing)
Lodestone
Killick stone
Lodestone
Lodestone
Lodestone
Lodestone and keeper
Equipment model; Anchor model; Half killick
Killick stone
Killick stone
Killick stone
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