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Swift (1783). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Swift (1783), a captured French merchant ship, as taken off and fitted as an 8-gun Brig Sloop for foreign s
3 December 1783
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A Sailor's Observation on the Lamented Death of Lord Nelson (caricature). This contemporary caricature captures the grief felt by ordinary sailors when they heard the news of Nelson’s death. The sailor on the right is drinking to ‘The mem
3 Dec 1805
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Head and Bow of an unnamed First Rate. Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the front view of the bows, a starboard bow and head profile, and half-breadth plan of the bow for an unnamed First Rate, illustrating the position of the gun ports. Signed by Thomas Rob
3 December 1823
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Panorama of Lisbon, Portugal, 1856. No. 9 in Fanshawe's Baltic and later album, 1843 - 83. Fold-out panoramic drawing on four joined sheets. The two on the left and the one on the far right are fold-outs from the fourth, which is stuck down on the al
3 December 1856
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. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the sail plan for a 26 ft Yawl as issued to Ariel (1854), a 9-gun Screw-Sloop. Signed H. Cradock [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1862-?].
Dated: 3 December 1863
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