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. Calendar for the single year of 1748. The calendar is made from a disc of bronze, which has tarnished. On one side of the calendar is a table with the months in three letter abbreviations and a table with the numbers for the number of days. Around the e
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. Inboard profile plan NMM, Progress Book, volume 2, folio 381, states that an Admiralty Order dated 2 August 1748 was issued to call the new ship 'Lyme'. She was begun at Deptford Dockyard on 24 September 1747 and launched on 10 December 1748
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. Inboard profile plan NMM, Progress Book, volume 2, folio 381, states that an Admiralty Order dated 2 August 1748 was issued to call the new ship 'Lyme'. She was begun at Deptford Dockyard on 24 September 1747 and launched on 10 December 1748
1748
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. Inboard profile plan NMM, Progress Book, volume 2, folio 381, states that an Admiralty Order dated 2 August 1748 was issued to call the new ship 'Lyme'. She was begun at Deptford Dockyard on 24 September 1747 and launched on 10 December 1748
1748
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. Inboard profile plan NMM, Progress Book, volume 2, folio 381, states that an Admiralty Order dated 2 August 1748 was issued to call the new ship 'Lyme'. She was begun at Deptford Dockyard on 24 September 1747 and launched on 10 December 1748
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A chart of the channel in the Phillippine Islands through which the Manila Galeon passes together with the adjacent islands. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca.1:1 500 000]. Cartographic Note: Border graduated for latitude. Rhumb lines. Additional Places: Luz
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An East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia taken by George Heap from the Jersey shore under the Direction of Nicholas Skull Surveyor General of the Provence of Pennsylvania. print
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An East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia taken by George Heap from the Jersey shore under the Direction of Nicholas Skull Surveyor General of the Provence of Pennsylvania. print
1748
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Captain Samuel Hood, 1724-1816. A three-quarter-length portrait seated to left and cross-legged. He wears a brown coat laced with silver and with broad lapels. His waistcoat and breeches are black and his white stockings are shown pulled over the knees. H
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Captain the Honourable George Edgcumbe, 1720-95. A three-quarter-length portrait wearing captain's full-dress uniform, 1748-67. He wears his own hair, tied in a bow at the back and a waistcoat and cuffs edged in gold. He holds the hilt of his sword i
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Centurion (1732); Warship; Third rate; 60 guns. Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull block model of the ‘Centurion’ (1732), a 60-gun two-decker ship of the line, painted to look like the Navy Board style. This model is quite rare since it has
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Counter commemorating the Battle of Cape Finisterre, 1747. Counter commemorating the Battle of Cape Finisterre, 1747. Obverse: Head of King Louis XV (right). Legend: 'LUD . XV . REX CHRISTIANISS .' Reverse: A lion facing (right). Legend : '
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Five Ships of the Line & a Frigate engaging off Portpea under their Double-Reef Topsails. Print
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Medal commemorating the Peace of Aix-la Chapelle proclaimed, 1748. Medal commemorating the Peace of Aix-la Chapelle proclaimed, 1748. Obverse: Bust of George II (left), laureate, hair long, no drapery. Legend: 'GEORGIUS II . D . G . REX.' Rever
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Plate money sqaure. Plate money. Roughly square copper plate. Stamped 'FRS 1748', '2 DALER SILF MYNT'. Cancelled Swedish copper being exported as bullion. From the wreck of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780-1815, found in the Sout
1748
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Plate money square. Plate money. Roughly square copper plate. Stamped 'FRS 1748', '2 DALER SILF MYNT'. Cancelled Swedish copper being exported as bullion. From the wreck of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780-1815, found in the Sout
1748
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Ramillies (1748). Scale 1:48. Plan showing body plan, sternboard with decoration, inboard profile with stern quarter decoration, and faint longitudinal half-breadth for 'Ramillies' (1748), a 1741 Establishment 90-gun Second Rate, three-decker. T
circa February/March 1749
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Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1748-58. Collar from the midshipman frock coat, UNI0006. There is a detailed description of this item contained within the "Notebook" icon.
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Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1748-67. This dress coat of a lieutenant has much in common with the formal suits of the mid-18th century. It is full skirted with no collar and very deep boot cuffs. However, instead of the silks, velvets or extremely fine wo
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Shipping off Woolwich. Viewed from Galleon's Point on the north side of the Thames, the 50-gun ship, with the stern of a bomb ketch visible beyond her, is lying at the lower end of Woolwich Reach. Both ships fly the red ensign and on the larger one t
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Sr Kenelm Digby. Technique includes etching.
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Swedish plate money square. Plate money. Roughly square copper plate. Stamped 'FRS 1720', '2 DALER SILF MYNT'. Cancelled Swedish copper being exported as bullion. From the wreck of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780-1815, found in
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Swedish plate money square. Plate money. Roughly square copper plate. Stamped 'FRS 1748', '2 DALER SILF MYNT'. Cancelled Swedish copper being exported as bullion. From the wreck of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780-1815, found in
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Swedish plate money square. Plate money. Roughly square copper plate. Stamped 'FRS 1748', '2 DALER SILF MYNT'. Cancelled Swedish copper being exported as bullion. From the wreck of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780-1815, found in
1748
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Swedish plate money square. Plate money. Roughly square copper plate. Stamped 'FRS 1748', '2 DALER SILF MYNT'. Cancelled Swedish copper being exported as bullion. From the wreck of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780-1815, found in
1748
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Swedish plate money square. Plate money. Roughly square copper plate. Stamped 'FRS 1748', '2 DALER SILF MYNT'. Cancelled Swedish copper being exported as bullion. From the wreck of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780-1815, found in
1748
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Swedish plate money square. Plate money. Roughly square copper plate. Stamped 'FRS 1748', '2 DALER SILF MYNT'. Cancelled Swedish copper being exported as bullion. From the wreck of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780-1815, found in
1748
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Swedish plate money square. Plate money. Roughly square copper plate. Stamped 'FRS 1748', '2 DALER SILF MYNT'. Cancelled Swedish copper being exported as bullion. From the wreck of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780-1815, found in
1748
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Swedish plate money square. Plate money. Roughly square copper plate. Stamped 'FRS 1748', '2 DALER SILF MYNT'. Cancelled Swedish copper being exported as bullion. From the wreck of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780-1815, found in
1748
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Swedish plate money square. Plate money. Roughly square copper plate. Stamped 'FRS 1748', '2 DALER SILF MYNT'. Cancelled Swedish copper being exported as bullion. From the wreck of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780-1815, found in
1748
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Swedish plate money square. Plate money. Square copper plate, stamps at each corner overlap the edges. Inscribed 'FRS 1748', '2 DALER SILF MYNT'. Cancelled Swedish copper being exported as bullion. From the wreck of an unidentified me
1748
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The Cause of Eclipses and the Motion of the Earth Delineated.. This etching gives diagrams of "The Eclipse of the Sun as it will appear at London on July 14 1748" and of the motion of the Earth around the Sun. In the background is a view over th
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The form of cruising off Acapulca on the coast of Mexico in the South Seas, in the year 1742, by His Majesty's ships, Centurion, Gloucester, Tryall prize, Carmila Prize, Carmin Prize.. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:4 500 000 (bar)]. Cartographic
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A chart of the southern part of South America with the track of the Centurion from the Island of St Catherine to the Island of Juan Fernandes in which is inserted the variation and soundings observ'd on board her; together with her deviation from her
[1748]
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Plate money square. Plate money. Roughly square copper plate. Stamped 'FRS 1749', '2 DALER SILF MYNT'. Cancelled Swedish copper being exported as bullion. From the wreck of an unidentified merchantman circa 1780-1815, found in the Sout
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Rear-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1748-1810, 1st Baron Collingwood. A full-length portrait to the right, showing Collingwood in rear-admiral’s full dress uniform of the 1795–1812 pattern (with inaccuracies), wearing his medals for the First o
1827
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A View of the Wreck of the Nympha, a Spanish Prize. The Nympha Americana.... wrecked near Beachey Head.... November ye 29th 1747. Technique includes etching.; Text in English below image.
28 Jun 1748
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