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The Dutch fleet at anchor in the Helder, 12 May 1665. In the background, there is a port-broadside view of the Dutch fleet lying at anchor, which seems to lie facing the wind. In the foreground is a stern view of a boeier yacht. The work is inscribed wit
1665
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Trial (1790). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth, midship section, and a plan and section through the centreboard casing, proposed and approved for building Trial (
12 May 1789
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Galic Perfidy, or the National Troops Attachment to their General after their Defeat at Tournay (caricature). Hand-coloured.
12 May 1792
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A Perspective View of the City of Naples. Hand-coloured.
12 May 1794
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A View of Amsterdam taken from the Old Rampart. Hand-coloured.
12 May 1794
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A View of the Great Arsenal at Venice, which has two Gates, one for the Workmen to enter at, the other for the Ships. Hand-coloured.
12 May 1794
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Commodore Anson in the Centurion with a crew of 227, 30 of which were boys, on the 20th of June 1743 about two in the afternoon attacks and in less than half an hour obliges to strike and surrender the rich Acupulco ship Nuestra Senora de Capodongo comman
12 May 1794
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Evening, or Sun setting. Le Soir, ou Soleil couchant. Plate No.100.
12 May 1794
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Poll and my Partner Joe (caricature). Text in English below image.
12 May 1794
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Poor Tom Bowling (caricature). Text in English below image. Plate No. 274.
12 May 1794
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The Greenwich Pensioner (caricature). Bears no: 262. This image was printed above the text of Charles Dibdin's song 'The Greenwich Pensioner' [?trimmed off this copy - to check]. Two Pensioners are seated at a table outside the door or what
12 May 1794
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The Nottingham Captain Saumarez takes the Mars. In June 1746 the French sent a powerful force to re-take Louisbourg and capture Nova Scotia. A long stormy journey from Brest and disease defeated them and the third surviving commanding officer, de la Jonqu
12 May 1794
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The Resolution Excise Cutter. Hand-coloured.; Technique includes roulette work.
12 May 1794
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To the Rt. Honble. the Earl of Chesterfield, & the Rt. Honble Lord Walsingham. - Postmasters General, This Plate representing the Gallant Action between his Majesty's Packet Antelope, & the French Privateer L' Atalante... [2 Dec 1794]. T
12 May 1794
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Tom Tackle relieving an Old Shipmate (caricature). Text in English below image.
12 May 1794
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'Vesuvius' (1776) bomb vessel. Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck with mortar beds, and lower deck for 'Vesuvius' (1776), a bomb vessel, as fitted with the alterations proposed by Colonel Congreve. Signed by
12 May 1797
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'Vesuvius' (1776) bomb vesssel. Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the section through the foreside of the after motar bed, and a section through the afterside of the foremost mortar bed for 'Vesuvius' (1776), a bomb vessel, as fitted to the
12 May 1797
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Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson K B. Print
12 May 1798
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Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson K.B. Print
12 May 1798
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This Portrait of Captain George Westcott, who fell on board his Majesty's Ship the Majestic of 74 guns, having bravely defended the Honor of the British Flag in the ever memorable Victory of the Nile, on the 1st August 1798; is respectfully Inscribed
12 May 1799
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A new chart shewing the navigation through the Straits of Sunda to Batavia. Drawn from the latest authorities by William Heather May 12th1803. Single sheet. Engr. Medium: Backed with blue paper. Scale: [ca. 1:350 000]. Cartographic Note: Graduated for lat
1803
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Comfort in a hurricane (caricature). Page 298.; Text in English below title.
12 May 1803
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Emblematical Monument erected in the Guildhall of the City of Norwich for the preservation of the Sword presented by the late Lord Viscount Nelson. The Arms are the same which his Lordship bore when the Sword was presented. Technique includes aquatint.
12 May 1806
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William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk. Print. A commemoration of Northesk's role as third in command at the Battle of Trafalgar, in the 'Britannia'. Although the ship suffered heavy casualties and did good rescue work in the post-Trafalgar
12 May 1806
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'Leopard' (1790). Scale: 1:96. A plan showing the spar deck, and upper deck of 'Leopard' (1790), as originally fitted as a fifty gun fourth rate two-decker, and as fitted in 1812 for a troopship. Signed by Nicholas Diddams [Master
12 May 1812
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'Leopard' (1790); 'Romney' (1812). Scale: 1:96. A plan showing the gun deck, and hold with fore and aft platforms for 'Leopold' (1790), as originally fitted as a fifty gun fourth rate two-decker, and as fitted in 1812 for a
12 May 1812
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31ft Powder Barge (1825). Scale: 1:24. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck details for a thirty-one foot single-masted powder barge built at Plymouth Dockyard for the Powder Works. The pl
12 May 1825
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The Niger Expedition... off Holyhead... Aug-Oct 1841. HMS Albert also shows Sudan and Wiberforce. This print depicts the paddle troopship 'Albert', which formed part of the Niger expedition of 1841, along with 'Soudan', on the left, an
12 May 1841
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The London and Madeira packet brig Dart entering Funchal Roads. Signed by artist in plate.
12 May 1845
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The Sverige 280 Tons, Winning the Royal Thames Yacht Club Match on June 1st 1853. Hand-coloured.
12 May 1854
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Lyndhurst as Nestor rebukes the Chiefs 'We want more ships - we want more men!' Punch May 12 1860. Original sketch. Drawing
1860
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