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clothing accessory: uniform insignia: badge, arm
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: button(3)
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Leading Wireman's (cable jointing)
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Petty Officer Wireman's (cable jointing)
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Wireman's (cable jointing)
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medal, British: prize medal: H.M.S. Implacable: Reward for Merit 1856
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water transport: model, exhibition: full hull model(decked: equipped: rigged)
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Eastern Tel Co. Sierra Leone - Ascension Cable 1901. (Bound volume)
Spanish Government: Barcelona - Majorca cable 1907 and Zafarin - Nemours Cable 1908. (Bound volume)
Western Union Cable Company. Sennen Cove - Valentia Island Cable. 1918. (Bound volume)
Western Union Telegraph Company: New York - Fayal cable, 1924. (Bound volume)
Western Union Tel Co. Repairs. (Bound volume)
Eastern Telegraph Co: Porthcurno - Lisbon - Gibraltar - Malta - Zante cable, 1887. (Bound volume)
Eastern Telegraph Company. Malta - Alexandria Cable. 1922. (Bound volume)
Eastern Telegraph Co: Aden - Colombo Cable 1913. (Bound volume)
German Government. Trelleborg - Rugen cable, 1898 (Bound volume)
Western Telegraph Co: Ascension - Buenos Aires cable and St Vincent - Ascension cable, 1910. (Bound volume)
Porthcurno Vigo, Vigo - Lisbon cables 1873 (Bound volume)
Direct Spanish Telegraph Company: Porthcurno - Bilbao no.2 cable, 1925. (Bound volume)
Working Chart: SS Seine 1866 Atlantic from June 1st 1878 to July 6th 1878 (cable chart)
Grappling sheet: SS Calabria June& July 1878 attempted repairs Atlantic cable 1866 (cable chart)
Anglo American Cable Co: Atlantic cables 1865-1866. Repairing expedition 1877. (Bound volume)
Eastern Extension Australasia & China Telegraph Company: Madras - Singapore cable 1921 (Bound volume)
Compagnia italiana dei cavi telegrafici sottomarini: Rio de Janeiro - Montevideo and Montevideo - Atalaya Cables (Bound volume)
Eastern Telegraph Co: Porthcurno - Madeira - St Vincent Cable, 1901. (Bound volume)
Compagnie francaise des cables telegraphiques: Repairs of the Brest - St Pierre 1879 cable 1896 and of the Brest - Penzance cable 1896 (Bound volume)
Eastern Extension Australasia & China Telegraph Company: Penang - Singapore Cable, 1886. (Bound volume)
Pirelli Cables Ltd: Syracuse - Benghazi cable and Naples - Palermo renewal, 1912. (Bound volume)
British Indian Submarine Telegraph Company: Suez - Aden - Bombay Cable, 1870. (Bound volume)
Submarine cable (Submarine cable)
Submarine cable (Submarine cable)
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