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Panorama of Eimeo [Moorea], Society Islands. No. 16 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. A fold-out panoramic outline drawing on five joined sheets, of which the second from right is stuck to the album page. Eimeo is one of the 18th- and 19th-cent
27 August 1849
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'Teriitaria or Ariapaia [Teri’i tari’a II Ari’i' paea], Queen of Huahine, Augt 30th 1849' [Society Islands]. No. 18 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as
30 August 1849
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'Mazatlan [Mexico] Augt 1850'. No. 41 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Fold-out panoramic drawing on two joined sheets, the right one stuck down on the album page which is captioned by the artist below the image, as title. Mazatlan (
August 1850
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The Cutter Yacht Cynthia 50 Tons... R.T.Y.C. Winning the L50 Purse at Torbay, Augt 24th 1849. Built April 1849 by Messrs Wanhill, of Poole. Hand-coloured.
2 Aug 1850
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'Tepic [Mexico], Augt 12th 1850'. No. 44 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Fold-out panoramic drawing on two joined sheets, the right one stuck down on the album page, which is captioned by the artist below the image, as title. For th
12 August 1850
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'Mexicans, Plaza at Tepic [Mexico], Augt 19th - 13th 1850'. No. 40 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. A well-observed study of the local costume at Tepic, Mexico, wh
9-13 August 1850
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'Outer anchorage in a calm, Mazatlan [Mexico], Augt 17th 1850'. No. 42 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. For the circumstances of Fanshawe and the 'Daphne'
17 August 1850
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'Outer anchorage in a squall, Mazatlan [Mexico], Augt 22nd 1850, 8.am. "Query, which is the way to the ship?"'. No. 43 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. Fo
22 August 1850
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Looking forward in lake boat, inscribed ' Riva-Lago Garda '. Throughout his career as a painter, Edward Cooke travelled extensively in Europe, visiting France, Holland, Italy, Spain, North Africa and Scandinavia. Paintings and drawings resulted
probably August 1851
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'Victoria Settlement, Vancouver Island, Augt 13th 1851' [Canada]. No. 58 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. On return from Beaver Harbour on 3 August, the 'Daph
13 August 1851
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Method of fitting guns to the launch of Phaeton (1848). No scale. Plan showing a part elevation and plan for the bow and stern of the launch for Phaeton (1848), a 50-gun, Fourth Rate Frigate, illustrating the fitting of guns to fire over the bow and ster
15 August 1851
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The Needles, Aug 17, 1851. Stored with PAD1284-PAD1286.
17 Aug 1851
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Bow details inscr 'Riva. Lago di Garda - Aug 20'. Throughout his career as a painter, Edward Cooke travelled extensively in Europe, visiting France, Holland, Italy, Spain, North Africa and Scandinavia. Paintings and drawings resulted from all hi
probably 20 August 1851
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Stern view with rudder unshipped, inscr. ' Lago di Garda Boat, Riva. 20 Aug. 1851'. Throughout his career as a painter, Edward Cooke travelled extensively in Europe, visiting France, Holland, Italy, Spain, North Africa and Scandinavia. Paintings
20 August 1851
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(Recto) Gibraltar, with HMS 'Trafalgar' at anchor, a Spanish smuggling boat and the steamer 'Oberon', 26 August 1851; (Verso) 'Mon Juc' [Montjuïc] Barcelona, September 1851. No. 9 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884). (Recto) In
August - September 1851
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(Recto) View at Gibraltar, towards Algeciras; with a pencil sketch of a rowing boat with a passenger in a tall hat; (Verso) Cabo de Gata. No. 23 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884). The watercolour coastal view is inscribed top left 'Gibraltar Aug 13th 52&#
August 1852
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HMS Driver at Ledsund, Aland Islands, 3 Aug 1854. Bound with PAF8450-PAF8487, PAF8489-PAF8504.; Medium includes graphite.
3 Aug 1854
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'The Island of Mull from Crinan bay'. This sketch of 'the Island of Mull from Crinan bay' was done by Louisa Herschel when she was 19 years old. It is signed by the artist and dated. It would very probably have been done from life on a
5 August 1854
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The harbour, fortifications, and Bight of Revel, from Wulf Island, in the Gulf of Finland, opposite Baro Sound, near Sweaborg.... Print
12 Aug 1854
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View from Loch Portree, Skye. This sketch of a 'view from Loch Portree, Skye' was done by Louis Herschel when she was 19 years old. It is signed and dated by the artist. It would very probably have been done from life on a family holiday. Other
13 August 1854
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Carnarvon Castle from Coed Helen. Print
14 Aug 1854
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38 ft Barge or 38 ft Pinnace. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth with deck details for a 38 ft Barge or 38 ft Pinnace with sliding gun mounts for and aft. The annotations indicate th
Dated: August 1855
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Six studies of coastal profiles. original art: drawing
8 Aug 1855
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The Bombardment of Sveaborg, 9 August 1855. A depiction of the Bombardment of Sveaborg, the culmination of the Anglo-French fleet's operations in the Baltic in the second season of the Russian (Crimean) War, 1854-56. Sveaborg was a fortress guarding
1855
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H.M. Gunboat Snake Lieut. Commander H. McKillop engaging Russian Steamers under Yeni Kali Batteries 24th May 1855. Hand-coloured.
16 Aug 1855
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'Church and Belfry at Hogland, Augt 24th 1855' [Finland]. No. 3 in Fanshawe's Baltic and later album, 1843 - 83. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. Hogland Island lies in the Gulf of Finland, due south of K
24 August 1855
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'Hogland, Augt 24th 1855' [Finland]. No. 4 in Fanshawe's Baltic and later album, 1843 - 83. Fold-out panoramic drawing on two joined sheets, the right one stuck down on the album page, which is captioned by the artist below the image, as ti
24 August 1855
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Aboriginal Canoes Communicating with the 'Monarch' and the 'Tom Tough', 28 August 1855. The artist took part in A.C. Gregory's expedition to North Australia, to record its activities in drawings and watercolours. This oil painting
1868
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'Malaga, Augt 14th 1857' [Spain]. No. 20 in Fanshawe's Baltic and later album, 1843 - 83. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. The seventh of a series of drawings of the Mediterranean fleet's summer crui
14 August 1857
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'Europa Point, Gibraltar, Augt 29th 1857'. No. 21 in Fanshawe's Baltic and later album, 1843 - 83. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. The eighth of a series of drawings of the Mediterranean fleet's sum
29 August 1857
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Napoleon III Receiving Queen Victoria at Cherbourg, 5 August 1858. (Updated, June 2017) Between 4 and 8 August 1858, the Emperor Napoleon III and the Empress Eugenie visited Cherbourg. On their arrival, they inaugurated the railway line linking the town t
1859
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Glasgow and Belfast Royal Mail Steam Ship Giraffe. Hand-coloured.
Aug 1860
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Wearing ship off Bell Rock, August 11 1860. Medium includes watercolour.
11 Aug 1860
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'Warrior' (1860). No scale. A plan showing a proposed four-masted rig for the broadside ironclad 'Warrior' (1860). The drawing is accompanied by detailed explanatory notes. These cover the rationale behind the proposal and also some of
August 1861
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To Nelson Arnold, Esq. R. St George's Y.C... Cutter Yacht Atalanta 27 Tons Winning... at the Royal Northern Yacht Club Regatta, off Dunoon, July 9th 1861. Hand-coloured.
13 Aug 1862
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Clipper Ship Silver Eagle 1046 Tons. Hand-coloured.
21 Aug 1862
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Clipper ship Walmer Castle 1200 Tons. Print entitled 'Clipper ship Walmer Castle 1200 Tons'. It is hand coloured.
27 Aug 1862
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Clipper Ship Lancashire Witch 1575 Tons Register. Hand-coloured.
5 Aug 1863
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Botter Xe on the Y near Amsterdam. Randorp Tower in the distance. Medium includes graphite.; Signed by artist and dated.
18 Aug 1863
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Sketch of a distant view of Part of the Sierra Nevada and Cape Degatta Aug 20. Bound with PAF8955-PAF8960, PAF8962-PAF8986.
20 Aug 1863
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A Boeier before a fresh breeze. Signed by artist and dated.
21 Aug 1863
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The Cutter Yacht Volante, 59 Tons, Winning the Royal Thames Yacht Club First Ocean Match at Harwich June 4th 1864. Hand-coloured.
1 Aug 1865
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The Cutter Yacht Volante, 59 Tons, Winning the Royal Thames Yacht Club First Ocean Match at Harwich June 4th 1864. Print
1 Aug 1865
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Getting out one of the large buoys for launching August 2nd. (Great Eastern). A team of sailors on board the 'Great Eastern' letting out one of the bouys used to mark the position where the cable was lost. The position was 51° 25'N 39&d
1865
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The forge on deck (of the Great Eastern) - night of August 9th preparing the iron plating for capstan. Three times the telegraph cable was grappled, on 3 August, 7 August and again on 11 August 1866. Each time hundreds of metres of cable was heaved off th
1866
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This View of the Interior of Longstone Lighthouse, Fern Islands, Grace Darling and her parents administering to the unfortunate survivors Saved from the wreck of The Forfarshire Steam Packet on the 7th September, 1838.... The interior of Longstone Lightho
20 Aug 1866
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'Sulphur mines, Formosa' [Taiwan]. No. 7 of 51 (PAJ2051 - PAJ2101): inscribed by the artist on the album page, as title, and signed in monogram initials and dated 'JHB 8/67', lower left on the drawing. The location shown by Butt is not
August 1867
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Cutter Yacht Sphinx, 47 Tons off Southsea. Winning the Albert Cup 1866. The Yacht Sphinx was owned by Mr J S Earle who was Commodore of the Club from 1878-1881
28 Aug 1867
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'Furuye, Hirado' [Japan]. No. 24 of 51 (PAJ2051 - PAJ2101): inscribed by the artist on the album page, as title, with the date '8/68'. Furuye lies on longitude 129. 31 east of Greenwich, on the west side of the large gulf called Yebu
August 1868
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Achilles (1861). sail
Aug 1868
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View of rocks and islets off Sotome (Nagasaki), Japan. No. 25 of 51 (PAJ2051 - PAJ2101): inscribed by the artist on the album page, 'On the west coast of Japan', with the date '8/68'. Japanese inshore fishing boats, shown against a bac
August 1868
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The Yacht Gertrude, 135 Tons. R.Y.S. Print
10 Aug 1868
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Sketch of sailing vessel with square sails - unfinished (on reverse). Bound with PAF9398, PAF9400-PAF9411.
31 Aug 1868
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Sketch of a panorama of Clew Bay showing Clare Island. Annotated. (continued from PAF9444). Bound with PAF9440-PAF9444, PAF9446-PAF9467.
12 Aug 1869
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Start Point, Devon. No. 51 of 51 (PAJ2051 - PAJ2101): inscribed by the artist on the album page, 'Start Point, Devon 8/70'. Here seen in the distance from the the north-east across Start Bay, 'the Start' - as it was generally known to
August 1870
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Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland, from the beach with colour notes and a sketch of cliffs. Sketches of same on reverse. Mounted with PAE6365, PAE6367.
24 Aug 1871
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The Saddle Rock near Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland. Mounted with PAE6365-PAE6366.
24 Aug 1871
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Holyhead 25 Augt 1871. original art: drawing
25 Aug 1871
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H.M.S. Defence. Print
1 Aug 1872
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H.M.S. Inconstant. Print
1 Aug 1872
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H.M.S. Sultan. Print
1 Aug 1872
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29ft Steam Pinnace No.47 for Britannia (1869). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the body plan, midship section, sheer lines with some inboard detail, longitudinal half-breadth, for a 29ft Steam Pinnace No.47 for Britannia (1869), a boy's training ship at Da
16 August 1872
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The East African slave trade: Destruction of a dhow. Published in the 'Illustrated London News'. Part of the Michael Graham-Stewart slavery collection.
16 August 1873
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A starboard quarter view of 'Alert' (1856) alongside ice under Cape Prescott detained by the ice.. On board HMS 'Alert' Lt. Parr recorded 'we brought up under the lee of an island just outside the bay and made fast to a large floe
9 or 12 August 1875
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Fast to the floe under Cape Prescott, Franklin Pierce Bay. ‘Discovery’ (left) and ‘Alert’ (right) secured to the ice below Cape Prescott. This gave the crews of the two ships time to explore and exercise the dogs with the sledges.
9 or 12 August 1875
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Starboard bow view of 'Alert' (1856), with Berrie, Ice Quartermaster, standing in the foreground behind a walrus which he killed.. On 10 August 1875, Parr wrote: ‘In the afternoon, one of our whaleboats went away to see if they could pick
10 August 1875
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A port stern quarter view of 'Alert' (1856) alongside the ice floe, with the crew cutting an ice dock in Dobbin Bay.. Lt. Parr wrote: ‘we steamed up the bay & cut a dock in the large floe which would shelter us completely. This same do
14 August 1875
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The crew of 'Alert' (1856) cutting an ice dock in Dobbin Bay near Cape Hilgard.. A view from 'Discovery' (1873) of the crew of 'Alert' (1856) cutting an ice dock in Dobbin Bay near Cape Hilgard. In the background is Cape Hilg
14 August 1875
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Sketch of clouds, with notes, inscribed 'Clouds over Canarvon' (on reverse). Bound with PAF9800-PAF9801, PAF9803-PAF9831.
31 Aug 1875
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A stone arched bridge over the River Usk. original art: drawing
Aug 1876
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Raglan Castle, near Monmouth. Mounted with PAE5525.
Aug 1876
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Lord Chas. Beresford R.N., M.P. (caricature). original art: drawing
12 Aug 1876
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View from the ice of 'Alert' (1856) ashore in Radmore Harbour, Rawlings Bay, at low tide.. This depicts an event when 'Alert' was returning south: ‘[at] the very top of high-water a rather insignificant looking piece of ice press
21 August 1876
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Lady Hamilton reading Gazette announcing one of Nelson's Victories. Print. Trial proof on laid -down India paper, with a pencil inscription (as title above) possibly by the engraver, Frank Holl. There is also a faintly printed inscription below the i
August 1877
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East Looe, 13 Aug 1877. original art: drawing
13 Aug 1877
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'The Farmyard. Litcombe Bowers - Aug 1878'. Sketch of the farmyard, Litcombe Bowers, August 1878. William James Herschel returned home in 1878 after 25 years in the Indian civil service. That summer he went on a sketching holiday with S. E. Har
August 1878
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'Oat Harvest, Litcombe Down. Aug 15 1878'. Sketch of Oat Harvest, Litcombe Down. August 15 1878' William James Herschel returned home in 1878 after 25 years in the Indian civil service. That summer he went on a sketching holiday with S. E.
15 August 1878
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'Rogie Falls, Rosshire, Augt 1883' [Scotland]. No. 41 in Fanshawe's Baltic and later album, 1843 - 83. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. The Rogie Falls are well-known beauty spot near Contin and Loch Garv
August 1883
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Parramatta. Heightened with white.
15 Aug 1884
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August 5th, 1889. Signed by artist and dated.
5 Aug 1889
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ACHILLES 1861. sail
4 Aug 1892
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Review August 15th, 1896. Heightened with white.
1896
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HMS Gibraltar 17 Augt 1901. Medium includes wash.; Heightened with white.
17 Aug 1901
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HMS Minotaur (1906). Scale 1:48. A plan showing the fore/aft body, sheer lines and longitudinal half-breadth of the armoured cruiser HMS Minotaur (1906).
August 1904
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27ft Whaler (1904). Scale: 1:16. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for a 27ft Whaler. Signed by Edwin Beaton [Chief Constructor, Sheerness Dockyard, (lent) 1903, (permenant), 1904-1913]
15 August 1904
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. Bridge deck plan
30 Aug 1905
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. Bridges and boat deck, as fitted in 1903, modifications from 1918/1920
30 Aug 1905
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. hold and sections, as fitted in 1903, modifications from 1918/1920
30 Aug 1905
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. Inboard profile plan, as fitted in 1903, modifications from 1918/1920
30 Aug 1905
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. Lower deck plan, as fitted in 1903, modifications from 1918/1920
30 Aug 1905
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. Main deck plan, as fitted in 1903, modifications from 1918/1920
30 Aug 1905
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. Upper deck plan, as fitted in 1903, modifications from 1918/1920
30 Aug 1905
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The RNVR Training Ship Buzzard (1887) moored in the River Thames at the Embankment.. A port bow view of the barquentine-rigged RNVR Training Ship 'Buzzard' (1887) moored in the River Thames at the Embankment. The photograph was taken from a padd
28 August 1907
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The ship 'Plympton', wrecked off St Agnes, Isles of Scilly. Photographic print, Gibsons of Scilly Shipwreck Collection. On 14 August 1909, the 'Plympton' sank after running on to Lethegus Rocks, off St. Warner Bay, St Agnes, Isles of S
August 1909
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First Class bathroom on the 'Royal George' (1907). Cabin interior on the passenger liner 'Royal George' ex 'Heliopolis' (1907) showing a shower and bathroom, probably in a cabin de luxe in First Class accommodation. Note the
August 1911
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First Class cabin de luxe on the 'Royal George' (1907). Cabin interior on the passenger liner 'Royal George' ex 'Heliopolis' (1907) showing a bedroom in a cabin de luxe in First Class accommodation. The cabines de luxe were
August 1911
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First Class cabin de luxe on the 'Royal George' (1907). Cabin interior on the passenger liner 'Royal George' ex 'Heliopolis' (1907) showing a cabin de luxe in First Class accommodation. The cabines de luxe were located forwa
August 1911
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First Class cabin de luxe on the 'Royal George' (1907). Cabin interior on the passenger liner 'Royal George' ex 'Heliopolis' (1907) showing a cabin de luxe in First Class accommodation. The cabines de luxe were located forwa
August 1911
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First Class stateroom on the 'Royal George' (1907). Cabin interior on the passenger liner 'Royal George' ex 'Heliopolis' (1907) showing a two berth stateroom in First Class accommodation.
August 1911
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Third Class cabin on the 'Royal George' (1907). Cabin interior on the passenger liner 'Royal George' ex 'Heliopolis' (1907) showing a four berth cabin in Third Class accommodation.
August 1911
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