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What made the search for longitude so important?
Why did most of the great European powers offer huge rewards for a way to determine longitude at sea?
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Which time is it?
Next time someone asks you the time, you may enquire if they want to know the atomic, universal, civil, local, solar or sidereal time
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Artist profile: J.M.W. Turner
Our art collection holds a major work by artist J.M.W. Turner: The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 (1822-24).
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Letters of marque
A letter of marque was a commission authorising privately owned ships (known as privateers) to capture enemy merchant ships.
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Mutiny on the Bounty
In 1789, master's mate Fletcher Christian led a notorious mutiny on the Bounty, which was under the command of William Bligh.
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Nelson's funeral
Nelson was shot at the Battle of Trafalgar (1805). His body was brought back to England on board HMS Victory and he was buried at St Paul's Cathedral.
Attraction
Cutty Sark's main deck and ship's wheel
Do you have what it takes to steer 963 tons of Victorian tea clipper on the high seas?
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Explore the captain's cabin
Come aboard Cutty Sark and discover how the crew lived, where they ate, slept - and even where they went to the loo
Meet Ernest Shackleton
Find out about Shackleton's dangerous voyage to the Antarctic in 1914
Meet the captains of Cutty Sark
Who were the master mariners who captained the fastest ship of its time?