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documentary artifact: ship plan: lines
documentary artifact: ship plan: lines & profile
documentary artifact: ship plan: yard, main
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medal, British: campaign medal: Naval Gold medal (Captains) for The Battle of the Nile, 1798
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water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 74 gun ship
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British School, 18th century
Bunney & Co
Diddams, P.
Guest, T
HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
Pingo, Lewis
Pocock, Nicholas
Pocock, William Innes
Pollard, Robert
the Younger, John Cleveley,
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French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798
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Ball, Alexander John
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This Representation of His Majesty's Ship Alexander of 74 guns, commanded by Richard Rodney Bligh, ten minutes before she struck her Colours to a French Squadron...6th of November 1794 (Print)
The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798; chart of Aboukir Bay and of the action, with key (Drawing)
Naval Gold Medal (Captain's) for the Battle of the Nile, 1798 (War medal)
View of Lord Bridport's Action off l'Orient (Print)
Launch of the 'Alexander' at Deptford in 1778 (Painting)
Alexander (1778); Warrior (1781); Montague (1779); Alfred (1778) (Technical drawing)
Alexander (1778) (Technical drawing)
The capture of HMS Alexander by the French, 6 November 1794 (Painting)
The 'Vanguard' disabled and in tow by the 'Alexander' (Capt Ball), 22 May 1798 (Drawing)
This Representation of His Majesty's Ship Alexander.... ten minutes before she struck her colours to a French Squadron... on the 6th of November 1794. With Canada 74 chased by a French Squadron of nine ships, Canada escapes Alexander capitulates when a wreck (Print)
The 'Vanguard' disabled and in tow by the 'Alexander', 22 May 1798 (Drawing)
Alexander (1778) (Drawing)
Alexander (1778) (Technical drawing)
Alexander (1778) (Technical drawing)
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