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Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport
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Royal Marines. Ensign. (uniform) (Print)
Inboard profile plan
Sir Frank Watson-Dyson (Photograph)
Bramin's Tomb, near the Road to Pondicherry (Print)
Carriage, Gun
65. The Gesuati, Venice (Print)
HMS Active (1911) (Technical drawing)
Badge: Order of St Vladimir, 4th class (military) (Order)
[Currents in the western Atlantic Ocean] (Chart)
Forming an eye splice in a wire rope in the Bosun's Stores (Drawing)
Box
Box
Crimea War Medal 1854 (War medal)
A helicopter parking area near Penarek, Trengganu, Malaysia, during exercise Bersatu Padu (Roll film negative)
[Trinidad] (Chart)
The Adams family having lunch in the yacht Sea Gull's dinghy on the beach in St. Margaret's Bay by the South Foreland, Kent. (Glass plate negative)
La Fregate la Cleopatre recuille une embarcation de naufrages Anglais par le travers du Canal de Mozambique (Print)
Northern Ireland - East Coast. Belfast Lough (Chart)
Plan of Dirk Vries and Maurice Bays of the South Coast of Jana... from Capt Charles Gust. Ekeberg (Chart)
A starboard side view, taken from ahead of the beam, of the Federal Steam Navigation Company refrigerated cargo ship Wild Fulmar (1974) alongside a wharf at Lyttelton, New Zealand. (Colour transparency)
On board the United States Navy guided missile destroyer Claude V Ricketts (1960) on a voyage from Kiel to Norfolk, Virginia. (Colour transparency)
A starboard quarter view of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner and cruise ship Chusan (1950) at anchor in an unknown French Mediterranean coast location. (Sheet film negative)
Hour-glass
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