About this site

. Black plastic ‘Accurist’ wrist-watch case containing four pieces of the original H1 gridiron, two brass and two steel. The box also contains a small glass phial with brass particles taken from H1 for analysis in the 1960s. These parts were r
1735
National Maritime Museum

. Lead filled brass counterweight, made and fitted to H1, almost certainly in the autumn of 1932 to replace a missing one. This was then cut off, with part of Harrison’s original counterweight arm, during either the 1952 or the 1961 restorations car
1735
National Maritime Museum

Counter commemorating the dispatch of a squadron to Danzig, 1735. Counter commemorating the despatch of a squadron to Danzig, 1735. Obverse: Bust of Admiral Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse (1678-1737) in armour and mantle. Legend: 'L .
1735
National Maritime Museum

Deptford; Warship; Sixth rate; 24 guns. Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull block model of the storeship ‘Deptford’ (1735), built in ‘bread and butter’ fashion. Measuring 124 feet along the gun deck by 33 feet in the beam and wit
1735
National Maritime Museum

H1. Marine timekeeper, H1. This is the first experimental marine timekeeper made by John Harrison in Barrow-on-Humber between 1730 and 1735 as a first step towards solving the longitude problem and winning the great £20,000 prize offered by the Brit
1735
National Maritime Museum

Medal commemorating Archduchess Marie Elizabeth, Governor General of the Austrian Netherlands. Medal commemorating Archduchess Marie Elizabeth, Governor-General of the Austrian Netherlands. Obverse: Bust of the Archduchess (right). Legend: 'EXEMPLO
1735
National Maritime Museum

Philip II, King of Spain, Naples, Sicilie &c. &c. &c. Print
1735
National Maritime Museum

Plan de Corfu (with view inset). Hand-coloured.
1735
National Maritime Museum

Rippon; Warship; Fourth rate; 60 guns. Scale: 1:48. A block design model of the ‘Rippon’ (1735), a 60-gun, two-decker ship of the line. Like Anson’s ‘Centurion’, it was built to the modified 1719 Establishment as an intermedi
1735
National Maritime Museum

Thomas Lediard, 1685-1743, Naval Historian, Frontispiece to Naval History of England, 1735. Print
1735
National Maritime Museum

Warship; First rate; 100 guns. Scale: 1:48. A block design model of the 100-gun, three-decker ship of the line (1735). The model is decked. The only 100-gun first-rate built to the 1733 Establishment was the ill-fated ‘Victory’, which was be
1735
National Maritime Museum

Warship; Third rate; 60 guns. Scale: 1:48. A Georgian full hull model of a 60-gun, two-decker ship of the line (circa 1735). The model is decked, equipped and rigged. The rigging is believed to be contemporary, with a small portion replaced in 1935. The m
circa 1735
National Maritime Museum

Admiral John Jervis, 1735-1823, 1st Earl of St Vincent. A full-length portrait to left in admiral's full-dress uniform, 1795-1812, wearing the ribbon and Star of the Bath and the St Vincent medal. Jervis's right hand rests on his sheathed sword
1806
National Maritime Museum