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Boatswain's call
Born digital photograph
Candle lantern
clothing, neckwear: uniform: tie
documentary artifact: knot
documentary artifact: knot: sennit
Knot
lighting device: lantern, candle(emigrant safety)
personal symbol: crown, naval
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sound communication t&e: boatswain's call
Tie
timekeeping t&e: case, watch(fragment)
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water transport: passenger vessel: emigrant ship
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Hart, Alexandra
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Macaseth Ltd
Price's Patent Candle Co Ltd
Taylor, J.T.
Unite, George
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Chester, Cheshire, England
Holmes Chapel
Macclesfield, Cheshire, England
Wallasey, Cheshire, England
Warrington, Cheshire, England
Wirral, Cheshire, England
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Arctic Exploration: Dr John Rae, 1853-1854
Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Opening of the Manchester Canal, 1894
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Lanoy 1869 (barquentine)
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Daniel, Christopher St John Hume
Dartmouth Training Squadron
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Greenwich Hospital
Royal Naval College, Osborne
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Boatswain's call
Ripples in a Pond (Born digital photograph)
Watch case (Watch case)
Candle lantern
Boatswain's call
A view along the bottom of the Manchester Ship Canal at the Warrington Dock entrance (Photographic print)
A view along the bottom of the Manchester Ship Canal at the Warrington Dock entrance (Sheet film negative)
Chatham Dockyard Flag Loft (Tie)
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