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armament t&e, firearm: gun, submachine
Badge
Boat's liquid compass
Boat's Liquid Compass and Binnacle
Builder's nameplate
Burgee
Bush
Caddy
Calendar
ceremonial artifact: burgee
ceremonial artifact: flag
Chair
Chart
Chocolate tin base
Chocolate tin insert
Chocolate tin leaflet
Chocolate tin lid
Cistern barometer
Clock
Colour transparency
data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: computer, jet
Design, Half block model
Design, Plating model
docking
documentary artifact: nameplate, builder's
documentary artifact: photonegative, glass
documentary artifact: ship plan: docking
documentary artifact: ship plan: general arrangement
Drawing
Dry card compass
envelope, airmail
Flag
furniture, relic: chair
furniture, relic: table
general arrangement
Glass photonegative
Gun, Signal
Half block model
Half block model; Plating model
Half block modelPlating model
Horizontal dial
Jet computer
Jet computer - aircraft
Jet computer instructions
Jigsaw puzzle
Jug
Liquid compass and binnacle
Marine chronometer
Medal
Medal box base
Medal box lid
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, cistern(domestic double angle barometer)
Negative
Octant
Octant box
Paget angle sextant
paget angle sextant
Path Indicator
Pelorus, gyrocompass
Pelorus and stand
Photograph
Pistol
Plating model
Pocket watch movement
Print
Rangefinder
Regulator, solar/sidereal
relic, animal: zoological specimen: beaver, stuffed
repeater, gyrocompass
Revolver
Rigged model
Sailor's work, Waterline model
sawset
Scenic model
Sheet film negative
sheet film negative
Signal gun
sound communication t&e: gun, signal
Stuffed beaver
Submachine Gun
Submarine liquid compass
Submarine liquid compass and binnacle
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, boat's liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, submarine liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
surveying & navigational t&e: path indicator(Holmes)
surveying & navigational t&e: pelorus
surveying & navigational t&e: rangefinder(stadimeter)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, paget angle
Surveyor's Sextant
Sword
Table
Technical drawing
timekeeper: chronometer, marine
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(2 day)
timekeeper: clock, long case regulator
timekeeper: movement, watch
timekeeper: timepiece, skeleton
timekeeping t&e: calendar
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, horizontal
Waterline model
Waterline model; Rigged model; Scenic model
water transport: fighting vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: submarine
water transport: fighting vessel: trawler, anti-submarine (HMS)
water transport: fishing vessel: trawler, side
water transport: model, design: block model(decked: half)
water transport: model, design: plating model(half)
water transport: model, exhibition: waterline model(decked: equipped: rigged: scenic)
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
water transport: service vessel: lifeboat (SS Ocean Viscount)
water transport: service vessel: tractor, water
water transport: service vessel: tug, canal
water transport: steam vessel: screw, twin
water transport accessory: repeater, gyro
woodworking t&e: sawset(shipwrights)
written communication t&e: envelope, airmail
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metal: silver
metal: silver, gilt
metal: steel
metal: unknown
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rosewood
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American Anti-Slavery Society
Annin Flag Co
Auto-Ordnance Corporation
Batori Computer Company Inc
Beck-Lee Corp
Bevan, W.
Bird, Henry P.
Bromley-Martin, Angela Felicity
Buttersworth, James Edward
Channing, Walter
Company, Commercial Cable
Cook, John Kingsley
Crompton, Henrietta M.
Currier, Nathaniel
Duren, Henry
E. & G. W. Blunt
E. Remington & Sons
E. S. Ritchie & Sons
E Brown
Eggert & Son
Endicott & Co.
F. C. Gould & Son
Francis Frith & Co
Galbraith & Sons Inc
Geril
Gryspeerdt, Norman Louis
Halliwell, Thomas
Heine, Peter Bernhard Wilhelm
HM Admiralty
Holmes Navigating Co
Howarth, Charles
Hyde, J. B.
Jackson Boilers
J Anderson & Son
John Bliss & Co
Keuffel & Esser Co
Lane Lifeboat & Davit Corp
Lionel Corporation
Lovett, George Hampden
Macpherson, Kenneth
Marine Photo Service
McDowall, Charles
Medallic Art Company
Monkhouse, William
Moorwoods Ltd
Morrill
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Norton Lilly & Co Inc
Outdoor Supply Co. Inc
Parsons, Charles Richard
Richard Dunston (Hessle) Ltd
Richard Dunston Ltd
Rowntree & Co
S. Stiles, Sherman & Smith
Sarony, Major & Knapp
Ship's company of HMS 'Duke of York'
Sperry
Sperry Gyroscope Co Ltd
St Andrews Engineering & Shipbuilding Co Ltd
Starbeck Taxidermy
T. Cooke and Sons Ltd
T. S. & J. D. Negus
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Unknown
Walker, J. & C.
Ward, George Gray
Webb, W. H.
Weston, R.
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HMS Duke of York
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Thorne, Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
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New York Bicentennial Celebrations July 1976
Opening of the first Atlantic Telegraph Cable, 1858
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Adriatic (1856)
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Agwiqueen (1944)
Alexander Hamilton (1924)
Aurora (1965)
Australian City (1964)
Bluenose II (1963)
Britannic (1930)
Brodsworth (1960)
Cameronia (1920)
Canberra (1961)
Cavalier (1944)
Cavendish (1944)
Chakdina (1951)
Dayton (1930)
Duke of York (1940)
Florence (1980)
Flying Cloud (1851)
Frances (1979)
Genevieve (1980)
Gordon [British]
Gripsholm (1925)
Illinois (1851)
Kellingley
Kungsholm (1928)
Lady Madelaine 1939
Monarch of Bermuda (1931)
Niagara [British]
Ocean Harvester 1969
Ocean Sceptre fl.1969
Ocean Viscount fl.1945
Richard J Barrett (1919)
Royal George (1756)
Samaria (1921)
Sir Winston Churchill (1966)
Strathlairg
Titanic (1912)
Triumph (1944)
Valorous [British]
Whitehead (1970)
YC 112 (1943)
YC 345 (1943)
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North-West Passage
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
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Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham
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Nelson, Horatio
Observatory of Mount St John
Postel, Warren Fred
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
Queen Elizabeth II
Richard Dunston (Hessle) Ltd
St Andrews Engineering & Shipbuilding Co Ltd
T. Wells & Co.
Wianno Yacht Club, Osterville, Massachusetts, US
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The Niagara, Valorous, Gordon & Agamemnon laying the cable at mid-ocean (Print)
River Jurono Singapore (Print)
The Great Telescope... Erected at Birr Castle in Ireland, by Earl of Rosse, President of the Royal Society (Print)
Pelorus and stand
Brodsworth (1960); Kellingley (1960); Service vessel; Tug; Canal tug (Half block model; Plating model)
Liquid compass and binnacle
Clock
Burgee, Wianno Yacht Club, Osterville, Massachusetts (Burgee)
Stuffed beaver
Jug
Burgee, Wianno Yacht Club, Osterville, Massachusetts (Burgee)
The passenger/cargo liner Parthia (1948) at New York (Negative)
The cargo ship Susan Maersk (1954) berthed in New York (Negative)
The cargo liner Manchuria (1945) at New York (Negative)
Slave Market of America (Print)
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