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. A green dessert stand with a printed anchor symbol incorporating the initials 'OL'. Silver and green lines decorate the rim. Printed on the base is 'ORIENT LINE' and the company house flag with a printed and impressed maker's ma
1951
National Maritime Museum

. Blue dress of WRNS Sickberth Attendant as sealed 24 August 1951.
1951
National Maritime Museum

. Gyrocompass unit pattern 8112, no. 1A/A/51, with manual for the Admiralty transmitting magnetic compass.
1951
National Maritime Museum

. Trousers
1951
National Maritime Museum

Fighting vessel; Gunboat. Scale: 1:48. A modern full hull model of a gunboat (circa 1788), built plank on frame. Model is decked, equipped with a single gun in the bow, and fully rigged with sails set. The model has no base, but two wooden supports are gl
1951
National Maritime Museum

House flag, Canadian Pacific Railway Co. The house flag of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co, London. The flag is made of wool bunting, machine sewn with a cotton hoist. A rope and wooden toggle is attached. A rectangular flag divided into six checks. W
1951
National Maritime Museum

Kathleen (1901); Cargo vessel; Barge; Thames sailing barge. Scale: 1:48. The Thames barge ‘Kathleen’ has been one of the more popular subjects for modelmakers over the years, due largely to the plans and details of the vessel that were publish
1951
National Maritime Museum

Korean Service Medal. Awarded to Commander Warren Fred Postel USN. Obverse: A temple gateway. Legend: "KOREAN SERVICE". Reverse: The Korean taejuk (a circle divided in two by a wavy line). Legend: "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA". Suspended
1951
National Maritime Museum

Map of the Moon. 100 inch reproduction in 25 sheets of Hugh Percy Wilkins' 300 inch Map of the Moon, with title page and index. This is the printed 3rd edition of 1951, in an impression that includes additional details discovered in April 1952 with a
1952
National Maritime Museum

Medal commemorating the centenary of the voyage of the 'Flying Cloud', 1951. Medal commemorating the centenary of the voyage of the 'Flying Cloud', 1951. Obverse: The 'Flying Cloud' under full sail (right). Legend: '185
1951
National Maritime Museum

Prize medal, Cape Horners association. Medal, Cape Horners Association. Obverse: Windjammer, albatross flying above. Legend: 'HOMMAGE DES CAPITAINES CAP HORNIERS'. Reverse: Legend: 'HAMBURG . NANTES . ANVERS . LE HAVRE . DUNKERQUE . LONDON
1951
National Maritime Museum

Service vessel; Gravesend tilt boat(circa 1650). Scale: 1:12. A full hull model of a Gravesend tilt boat (circa 1650), a two-masted passenger vessel, built in lbread and butterl fashion with a painted finish. Model is decked, equipped and fully rigged, wi
1951
National Maritime Museum

Working Boats from Around the British Coast. This mural, made of five panels, was originally made for the decoration of the Nelson Bar on board HMS ‘Campania’. This aircraft carrier, converted as a floating display space, toured British ports
1951
National Maritime Museum

. Used chronograph sheet from Airy's chronograph, 12-15 Feb 1951 in a frame.
Feb 1951
National Maritime Museum

19 ft Yawl. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, inboard profile, longitudinal half-breadth for a 19 ft Yawl for the Ordinary. Ordered to be built in August 1817. This is a traced copy of plan ZAZ7139.
Dated: February 1951
National Maritime Museum