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Astronomical and navigational instruments
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
Electronic navigation
Exploring the Arctic
Globes
Globes and globe gores
Herschel family
Meteorological instruments
Optical equipment
Popular Astronomy
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The Herschels as experimenters
The Herschels as instrument makers
The many faces of the telescope
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Accommodation model
Achromatic telescope
Adjusting key
Adjusting pin for sextant
Aft section plan
Aneroid barometer
astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic
astronomical t&e: telescope component: mirror, speculum metal
Binoculars
Block
Bottle
Bowl
Box for sextant
Bust
Button
Cap badge
card, business
ceremonial artifact: ensign, naval
ceremonial artifact: ensign, naval ?
ceremonial artifact: flag, house
ceremonial artifact: flag, official
ceremonial artifact: pennant, official
Chart
chronometer, marine
Civil ensign
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: badge, cap
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: button
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Apprentice's
Colour transparency
Compass card
Cup
Dish
documentary artifact: card, business
documentary artifact: photonegative, glass
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, boat
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, bridges
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, signal
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, superstructure
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper
documentary artifact: ship plan: docking
documentary artifact: ship plan: hold
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard
documentary artifact: ship plan: protective plating, general arrangement
documentary artifact: ship plan: rig
documentary artifact: ship plan: rig, general arrangement
documentary artifact: ship plan: rig, profile
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, aft
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, forward
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, midship
documentary artifact: ship plan: shell expansion
documentary artifact: ship plan: watertight compartments, general arrangement
Drawing
Dry card compass
Dry compass
Ensign
Ephemera
eyepiece for sextant
Flashing lamp
Forecastle deck plan
Full hull model
Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Accommodation model
Glass photonegative
Glass plate negative
hold
House flag
Inboard profile plan
Jack
Jug
knob
Lantern
Level
Lid for mariners compass
Life saving award
Lifesaving award
Liquid compass
Lower deck plan
Main deck plan
Marine chronometer
Mariner's compass
Masthead lamp
Mercury barometer
meteorological t&e: barometer, aneroid
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury(cistern barometer)
Mirror, speculum metal
Mug
Mug handle
Naval ensign
Negative
Octant
Octant box
Octant shades
Officer of the Watch telescope
Officer of the Watch telescope eyepiece cap
Officer of the Watch telescope objective lens cap
optical t&e: binoculars
Pair of pistols
Pendulum
Pennant
personal symbol: coat of arms, royal
personal symbol: flag, house
Photographic print
Pilotage instructions
Pilotage rates and laws
Pin ? for sextant
Plank-on-frame
Plate
Platform deck plan
Pocket watch
Pocket watch movement
Port instructions
Port lamp
Position plotter
Print
Prize medal
protective plating, general arrangement
Revolver
rig
rig, profile
Roll film negative
Saucer
section, midship
Sextant
Sextant adjusting key
Sextant adjusting pin
Sextant box
Sextant eyepiece
Sextant shaded eyepiece
Sextant sight tube
Sextant telescope
Sheet film negative
Ship's clock
Sighting tube
Sighting tube for sextant
Sight tube? for sextant
Sight tube? for sextant
Sight tube for sextant
Sounding machine
State ensign
State flag
Stevengraph
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, dry
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: machine, sounding
surveying & navigational t&e: level
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
surveying & navigational t&e: plotting instrument: plotter, position(navigational sailing chart)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
Sympiesometer
Technical drawing
telegraph, dial
telegraph, dial parts
telegraph, engine room
telegraph parts
Telescope
Telescope for sextant
Telescope for sextant
Tide gauge
Tile
timekeeper: chronometer, marine
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(1 day)
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(2 day)
timekeeper: clock, ship's(also barometer)
timekeeper: movement, watch
timekeeper: watch, pocket
Tripod
Tureen
Tureen lid
Upper deck plan
visual communication t&e: lamp, flashing(Burrill)
visual communication t&e: lamp, masthead
visual communication t&e: lamp, port
visual communication t&e: lantern, not under command
Watch
watertight compartments, general arrangement
water transport: cargo vessel
water transport: cargo vessel: ferry, car
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, light (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat, composite (HMS)
water transport: model, design: full hull model(decked: equipped)
water transport: passenger vessel: liner
water transport: sailing vessel: 3 masted
water transport: sailing vessel: schooner, topsail
water transport: service vessel: packet, wood paddle
water transport: service vessel: packet, wood paddle (HMS)
water transport: service vessel: tank cleaning vessel, oil (HMS)
water transport: steam vessel
water transport: steam vessel (SS)
water transport accessory: block, derrick heel
water transport accessory: telegraph, engine room
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black ink
black ink (with blue colour wash)
blue & yellow colour wash
blue, grey and yellow colour wash
blue colourwash
blued-steel
blue ink
blue ink (with yellow colour wash)
blue wash
brass
bronze
brown colourwash
brown ink
brown wash
card
cardboard
Cellulose acetate negative
cellulose nitrate
Cellulose nitrate negative
coating: gilt
coating: varnish
copper
cotton
diamond
earthenware
ebony
enamel
Gelatine dry plate
gilt brass
glass
gold
green ink
grey ink
grey wash
inorganic: glass
inorganic: mica
ivory
ivory (CITES)
lead
lead?
leather
linen
linen (mount)
liquid evaporated
lithograph, coloured
machine sewn
mahogany
mauve ink
mercury
metal
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Metal, enamel, glass
metal: brass
metal: brass ?
metal: bronze ?
metal: copper
metal: enamel
metal: gold
metal: iron ?
metal: silver
metal: speculum
metal: steel
mica
oil
organic: bone
organic: ivory
organic: linen
organic: paper
paint
painted canvas
paper
paper mounted
pencil
photographic reproduction
plastic
Polyester negative
porcelain
printed
red colourwash
red ink
rosewood
silk
silver halide: gelatine
steel
stoneware
synthetic blend
synthetic fibre
synthetic materials
tracing paper
tracing paper (fragile)
tracing paper (very fragile)
tracing paper mounted
velvet
walnut
wood
wood: ebony
wood: mahogany
wood: oak
woodcut
wool
wool blend
yellow colourwash
yellow ink
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Display - Nelson, Navy, Nation Gallery
Display - Sea Things Gallery
Display - Traders Gallery
Display - Voyagers
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A. Walker & Son
Abraham, A.
Ackermann, Rudolph
Adams, Edgar Tarry
Adams, Francis Norris
Atkins, Robert Roskell and Brockbank &
Baker, L.A.
Barned, I, & Co
Bassnett, James
Bradbury, Arthur
Butler & Forrester
C. B. & Co Ltd
Casartelli, A
Casartelli, A. & Co.
Chatfield, Henry
Crichton, C & H, Ltd
Day & Son
Douglas, Hugh
Dove, Thomas
Elkington & Co
Elkington & Co. Ltd
Francis Frith & Co
Frodsham & Keen
G. Smith, Watts and Co
Gerrard, William
Gowland, George
Graham, John
Gray
Gray & Keen
Gray, John
Hammond, W J, & Co
Harland & Wolff Ltd
HM Dockyard, Deptford
Holmes
J. Sadler & Sons
John Bruce & Sons
Johnson, John
Johnson, Joseph
Jones, Thomas
Junior, Christopher Hayes
J W Ray & Co
Keen, R. J.
Lancaster
Lassell, W
Leverton, John
Litherland, Peter, & Co
Liverpool Block Company
Liverpool Packet Station
Marine Photo Service
Molineaux Webb & Co
Moncas, John
Owens, Owen
Palatine Gauge Co.
Pennington
Picken, Thomas
Porter Bros
Porter Bros and Co Ltd
Porter Bros Ltd
Porter Brothers
Porter Brothers Ltd
Potter, W H, & Sons
R. Hodgkinson & Co
Rayner & Sons
Richardson, A.
Roberts
Roskell, Robert
Russell, J, & Co
Sadler, John
Sadler and Green
Samuel & William Walters
Sewill, Joseph
Sibbald, John
Smith, Egerton
Thomas Vernon & Son
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Wadsworth, Edward Alexander
Weatherilt, S
Williams & Powell
Wilson Son & Walter
Wood, John
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City and Borough of Liverpool
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Eruption of Mount Pelee, 1902
Exploration: Anson's Voyage, 1740-1744
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798
French Revolutionary Wars: Defence of Acre, 1799
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
War of Jenkins' Ear: Capture of Porto Bello, 1739
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Adriatic (1906)
Alondra (1922)
Atlantic Song (1967)
Avon (1880)
Baltic (1904)
Beehive (1752)
Bern (1942)
Bison (1906)
Bramble (1898)
Britomart (1899)
Cambria (1878)
Campania (1893)
Caroline (1914)
Cassandra (1943)
Cedric (1903)
Celtic (1901)
Chakdina (1951)
Conway (1839)
Cutty Sark (1869)
De Hoffnung (1762)
De Tre Sodskende fl.1790
Empress of Britain (1906)
Finisterre (1944)
Hadwen fl. 1760
Irex (1884)
Ista fl.1908
John Dawson fl.1780
Jupiter fl.1805
Lancastria (1922)
Liverpool (1837)
Louisa
Lousia 1866
Majestic (1889)
Manx Fairy (1853)
Marco Polo (1851)
Marlowe (1927)
Medina 1840
Medusa (1838)
Melita (1971)
Merlin (1838)
Molly fl.1780
Mvita 1956 (HMEAS)
Nancy fl. 1756
Nesta (1891)
Nevasa (1956)
Perch Rock (1929)
Perseus (1776)
Petronilla (1888)
Prosperity fl.1787
Queen Adelaide 1831
Roddam 1887 [SS]
Santissima Trinidad fl.1805 (Spanish navy)
Sarah Sands (1846)
Saxonia (1900)
Sea Queen (1858)
Skirmisher (1884)
Stranger (1885)
Strathalvie (1965)
Strathatlow (1961)
Strathdare (1974)
Strathlairg
Strathmay (1970)
Strathmeigle (1971)
Strathmore (1971)
Strathmuir (1971)
Tiger fl.1795 (HMS)
Umbria (1884)
Victory (1765)
Vigilant (1953)
Vine (1846)
Virginian (1905)
Wallasey (1927)
Workman (1898)
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Voyagers
War and Conflict
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Adams, Edgar Tarry
Adams, Francis Norris
Adams, Helen Ann
Allsop, John
Artis, John
Baltic Steamship Co Ltd, Liverpool
Bandera Espaniola
Bennet, John
Blake, Susan
Bolt, Daniel
British Rail
Brooks, Victor Edwin Abraham
Brothers, Hayes
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
Brunel, Marc Isambard
Cammell Laird & Company Ltd
Canadian Pacific Line
Canadian Pacific Railway Co, Canadian Pacific Railway
Capon, F. G.
Chadwick Wainwright & Co
Chatfield, Henry
Coker, A, & Co, Liverpool
Cook, Welton and Gemmell Ltd
Cottle, Thomas
Dienies, Carl Gustar
East Africa: Royal Navy
Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd
Freeman, Edward William
Gibson, J.
Hardy, Pamela
Harries, David H.
HMS Conway
Jarvis, H. Howard
Jervis, John
John Elder & Co
John Lilley & Son Ltd
Jones, Charles
King William IV
London & Glasgow Engineering & Iron Shipbuilding Company Limited
Louis Pierre Boitard
Marshall, Thomas Falcon
Mercantile Marine Service Association
Mersey Towing Co Ltd, Liverpool
Nelson, Horatio
Nigeria: Royal Navy
Nigerian Protectorate
Pembroke Dockyard
Pennington
Pope, Charles Meredyth
Port of London Authority
Port of London Authority: Chairman
Port of London Authority: Harbour Service
Potter, W H, & Sons
Rodney, George Brydges
Royal Naval Supply and Transport Service
Sadler, John
Sea Cadet Corps
Skutil, Francis William
Smith, William Sidney
Williams, Joseph Battison (Borough Surveyo
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Yarrow & Co Ltd
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Petronilla (1888) (Technical drawing)
Petronilla (1888) (Technical drawing)
Petronilla (1888) (Technical drawing)
Stranger (1885) (Technical drawing)
Petronilla (1888) (Technical drawing)
Stranger (1885) (Technical drawing)
Glenesslin (1885) (Drawing)
Stranger (1885) (Technical drawing)
Officer of the Watch telescope objective lens cap
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Cutty Sark (1869) (Technical drawing)
Sarah Sands (1846) (Technical drawing)
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6290 (Pocket watch movement)
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