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documentary artifact: model, rudder
documentary artifact: ship plan: pintles, rudder
documentary artifact: ship plan: rudder
documentary artifact: ship plan: rudder(temporary)
documentary artifact: ship plan: rudder(Thompson's)
documentary artifact: ship plan: rudder cap
documentary artifact: ship plan: rudder head
documentary artifact: ship plan: rudder port
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relic, ship: copper, rudder
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Scale: 1:12. A full hull model of the double-ended whaleboat S.Jose, made entirely in wood, built plank on frame and painted in realistic colours. The vessel is depicted fully fore and aft rigged on its single mast. The hull is painted mostly white with the top strake painted deep blue and the gunwales painted red. A narrow strake is also red as is the inboard hull. It is equipped with sails, short bowsprit, mast and spars, rudder and tiller and the various tools needed to hunt whales.
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Timber
timber,
water transport: exploration/research vessel: survey vessel
water transport: fighting vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: 1st rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 5th rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 36 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 40 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 74 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: 120 gun ship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship
water transport: fighting vessel: brig
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat
water transport: fighting vessel: gunboat (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: gunvessel (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop (American)
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, 16 gun
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop, paddle (HMS)
water transport: model, vessel: full hull model(decked)
water transport: sailing vessel
water transport: service vessel: barge, sailing
water transport: service vessel: mortar boat
water transport: steam vessel: screw, single
water transport accessory: head, rudder(Admiral's galley)
water transport accessory: indicator, rudder
water transport accessory: rudder
water transport accessory: rudder (bow and stern)
water transport accessory: rudder, balanced (strop guard)
water transport accessory: rudder, bow
water transport accessory: rudder, common
water transport accessory: rudder, jury
water transport accessory: rudder, keel
water transport accessory: rudder, round-headed
water transport accessory: rudder, temporary
water transport accessory: rudder, Thompson's patent
water transport accessory: rudder head ?
water transport component: bow
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(cutaway: decked: equipped: half: port: stern: working)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(cutaway: decked: equipped: half: starboard: stern: working)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(equipped: stern: working)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(half: starboard: stern)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(stern)
water transport component: model, design: sectional model(stern: stern post)
water transport component: model, exhibition: sectional model(rudder: stern: working)
water transport component: model, exhibition: sectional model(stern: decked: working)
water transport component: model, instructional: sectional model(bow)
water transport component: model, instructional: sectional model(decked: equipped: stern)
water transport component: model, instructional: sectional model(scenic)
water transport component: model, instructional: sectional model(stern)
water transport component: model design
water transport component: stern
water transport component: stern: elliptical (starboard)
water transport component: stern: rudder, balanced
water transport component: stern: rudder, temporary (port)
water transport component: stern: rudder, temporary (starboard)
water transport component: stern: stern post
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Congreve, William
Siemens Brothers and Co Ltd, London
United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)
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Deptford Dockyard
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Limous, Capt
Marshall, H.
Royal United Service Institution
South Kensington Museum
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Warren, Cdr
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Full hull model; Plank-on-frame; Rigged model; rudder
Rudder head
Fighting vessel; Mortar boat (Full hull model; Accommodation model)
Rudder model
H.M. Armed Vessel 'Bounty' rudder fragment (Timber)
jeton de marine (Cast)
Passenger vessel; Canoe, Outrigger (Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails furled; Side rudder)
Component model; Rudder model
Fighting vessel (Sectional model; Stern model)
Thompson's patent rudder (Equipment model)
Fishing vessel; Wei Hai Wei sampan (Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails set; Sail)
HMS 'Sharpshooter' (1846); Warship; Gunboat (Sectional model; Bow model)
Passenger vessel; Canoe, Outrigger (Full hull model; Rigged model; Sails furled; Support for side rudder)
HMS Fawn (1856); Fighting vessel; Sloop (Stern model; Longitudinal model; Sectional model)
Thompson's Patent Rudder (no date) (Print)
Rudder port (no date) (Drawing)
Wanderer (1835); Wolverine (1835); Sapho (1837); Harlequin (1836); Lily (1837) (Drawing)
Proposed Rudder modifications for 74 gun ships (Technical drawing)
Camperdown (1825) (Technical drawing)
Alban (1826) (Technical drawing)
Helm trunk and rudder for unnamed vessel (Drawing)
rudder
indicator, rudder
Rudder section of H.M. Armed Vessel 'Bounty' (Copper)
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