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Speedboat: 'Miss England I', used by Segrave to contest World Water Speed Records, with various components

1929

Model of the junk boat of the Miao Tzu

1963-1964

Whole model of HM first class torpedo boat no.93

1893-1909

Model of the PS 'Charlotte Dundas'

1903

Model of a 'Pedalo'

1955-1959; 1958

Whole model of 'Luck-net' or 'Follyer' boat, named, 'Britannia'

1880-1883

Model boat, one of two, fitted with Welin Quadrant Davits

1905

Model of a Lagos market boat

1900-1907

Model of boat with copulating man and woman

Model of Chinese floating reed stack

1930-1963

Model of an Adirampatnam boat (with long balance-board)

1920-1923

Small model of Hangchow Bay boat

1900-1935

Model of a small Hallstatt salt-boat

1900-1931

Small model of Austrian salt carrying boat

1850-1900

Model of a Canton Slipper-boat

1933

Rigged model of a Burmese Irrawaddy rice boat

1884-1894

Boat, for cleaning out drainage sough at Old Meadows Colliery

Model of a Gozo boat from Malta

1931

Model of a gaff-rigged Gibraltar water carrying boat

1909

Model of a Stone-lighter from Suez

1926

Whole model of Mount's Bay (Cornish) lug-sail boat

1875-1883

Model of a Clovelly Herring Boat 'Rattling Jack'

1933; 1957

Model of a Tirupalakudi boat with short balance-board

1920-1923

Model of small Burmese rice-boat, with carved steersman's seat and mat tilt

1814-1929

Whole model of Meiram River (Siam) ordinary open boat (Ru a Chang)

1858-1908

Whole model of a 'Pulwar', a decked boat

1800-1880

Rigged model of a Dutch Boat

1850-1927

Model of Scottish Zulu "Defiance" of Portknockie

1925-1933

Model of motor boat "Miss England II"

1930-1931

Model of a Maltese Waterman Boat

1850-1902

Whole model of Duoro River boat

1850-1901

Model of Dinghy

1869-1879

Whole model of lug ketch

1870-1880

Model of a "Gufa" from the Tigris

1930-1931
Model of a Shetland "Sixern" boat named 'Sovereign' (register No. LK.2118). Made by John Shewan. One of the large open boats formerly used in Shetland Islands for deep-water fishing. Until the end of the 19th century they were also used in long line fisheries. Scale 1:12

Model of a Shetland "Sixern" boat named 'Sovereign'

1925-1933
Model of a Lake Geneva rowing boat, by Major Frederick Raban Wiliams, Teignmouth, Devon, England, 1936

Model of a small Geneva rowing boat

1935-1936
Model one of two, scale 1:16, of a ship's life boat fitted with a Welin Quadrant type Davit, patented by Axel Welin, fitted to an imitation deck on base, by Paxton and Co., London, England, 1905. The movement of the tooth quadrant gave the davits a horizontal motion overboard so that the boat could be rapidly lowered over the side of a ship in an evacuation. Welin's inventions were fitted to the RMS Titanic and after the disaster in 1912 sales of the davits skyrocketed

Model boat, one of two, fitted with Welin Quadrant Davits

1905
Cambridge University Racing Eight with eight oars, boat, by George Sims, Putney and oars by E. Ayling and Sons, Putney, London, English, 1934

Cambridge University Racing Eight, 1934

1934
Gravy boat, British Transport Commission - Catering Services, made by Lambert & Blaber, Sheffield. Overall: 104 mm x 217 mm x 102 mm.

Nickel silver gravy boat, British Transport Commission - Catering Services

Model, scale 1:16, of a riverboat from the Irrawaddy River, known as an oil-boat as it was used to transport petroleum from Burma, with woven roofs, unsigned, Rangoon, Yangon, Myanmar, 1893-1903

Model of a Burmese oil boat, with projecting platform for additional cargo storage

1893-1903
This Pixie model boat was built in the early 1930s by an unknown maker in England and is fitted with an inboard engine and variable propellor built by Watermota in Devon. The aluminium alloy boat has white and light-green paintwork, and the name ‘Pixie’ is painted on the front-right side of the craft. The boat has a side mounted wheel, and three rows of seating. The Watermota engine is mounted in the centre of the boat.

Motor boat 'Pixie'

1930-1935
Model, scale 1:12, of a Malay racing boat or canoe, as used in Kedah river, Malay Peninsula.

Model of racing boat, as used in Kedah river, Malay Peninsula

1920-1923
Model, scale 1:12, of a catamaran boat, used at Vizagapatam in the north of Madras, India

Model of a Vizagapatam Catamaran

1933
Contemporary model, scale 1:36, of a three-masted Armed Lugger as used during the Napoleonic wars

Model of Armed Lugger

1775-1815
Model, scale 1:12, of an American dipping-lug sail rigged whaleboat, with both carvel (flush) planking and clinker (over-lapping) planking as used in the North Pacific Ocean c.1860, unsigned, Europe,

Model of an American whaling boat

1860-1903
Model of a canvas Island Boat as used on Tristan da Cunha

Model of an Island Boat

1929-1932
Hydrofoil boat (Actual Craft)

Hydrofoil boat (Actual Craft)

Model, Scale 1:32, of the motor drifter boat, 'Gleanaway' (register No. KY 40), with starboard side planking omitted to reveal the hull construction and internal arrangements, by Philip Arthur Rumbelow, British. Human figures by Barbara Mary Campbell, British. This model of the 'Gleanaway', the actual vessel being built by J & G Forbes & Co. at Sandhaven, Scotland in 1930, is an example of the motor-driven type of drifter engaged in the North Sea fisheries.

Model of the motor drifter boat 'Gleanaway', with starboard side planking omitted

1936-1937; 1962
Rigged model, scale 1:12, of a dhow called a 'Mashua', made from notes taken at Port Sudan, by William Herbert Holloway, Chiswick, London, England, 1907-1925

Model of a dhow called a 'Mashua'

1907-1925
Model of Thor Heyerdahl's reed boat raft 'Ra II', composed of cylinders of vegetal stalks and basket-work cabin, with figures, by AA Croucher, Woolwich, London, England, 1973

Model of Thor Heyerdahl's reed boat 'Ra II'

1973