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Section of a made mast at gun deck level for a main and foremast for a ship of each class. Scale: 1:12. A plan showing a section through the composite make up of a "made mast" at gun deck level for ships of 100, 90, 74, 64, 50, 44, 32, and 28 g
24 April 1780
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Cormorant (1794). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with midship framing, and longitudinal half-breadth for Cormorant (1794) and Favourite (1794), both 16-gun Ship Sloop (with quarter deck & forecastle), building at Rotherhithe by
24 April 1793
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The Portland Packet, Captn. Taylor, Beating off a French Cutter Privateer, near Barbadoes. Stored in mount with PAD5508..
24 Apr 1797
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Yo Heave Ho (caricature). Text in English below image.
24 Apr 1799
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The Windham East India Man with the Fleet sailing from St Helena, under convoy of His Majesty's ship Monmouth. Hand-coloured.
24 Apr 1809
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The 'Royal Sovereign' Conveying Louis XVIII to France, 24 April 1814. The monarchy was restored in France when Napoleon surrendered and was imprisoned in Elba. Louis XVIII left Dover for Calais, on the afternoon of 24 April 1814 aboard the yacht
1814
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Annotated drawing of a schooner, 24 April 1843. No. 4 of 30 (PAH3772 - PAH3801) The schooner is not identified, but the figurehead is an eagle which may suggest the vessel’s name. The way in which Schetky uses annotations may have been learnt from
24 April 1843
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The English and French Royal Mail Steam packets Queen and Empress. Hand-coloured.
24 Apr 1855
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Com. Farragut's Fleet, passing the Forts on the Mississippi, April 24th 1862. The U S Frigate Mississippi destroying the rebel Ram Manassas. Hand-coloured.
1862
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Achilles (1861). hold
24 Apr 1863
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Achilles (1861). Inboard profile plan
24 Apr 1863
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Achilles (1861). Lower deck plan
24 Apr 1863
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'The Beaching of River Clyde, V Beach, Dardanelles, April 24, 1915'. Framed watercolour, titled as above on the frame. It is also signed by the artist and dated, lower right, with two other inscriptions: one to lower left identifies the 'FO
1923
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HMS 'Vindictive' returning from the Zeebrugge Raid with the destroyer 'Warwick', 24 April 1918. Signed and dated, lower left, and also inscribed by the artist with the names of the two ships (in the sea below them). The frame also bea
1925
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