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Masts and rigging

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  • Boer War: The Duke of Connaught raising the Union Jack on the masthead of a hospital ship, an official Committee and line of soldiers in attendance. Gouache painting by F. Dickinson after D. Macpherson, 1899.

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    Boer War: The Duke of Connaught raising the Union Jack on the masthead of a hospital ship, an official Committee and line of soldiers in attendance. Gouache painting by F. Dickinson after D. Macpherson, 1899.

    | MacPherson, Douglas, 1871-1951. | Date: 1899 | Reference: 23557i
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    The art of making masts, yards, gaffs, booms, blocks, and oars, as practised in the Royal Navy, and according to the most approved methods in the merchant-service . Including a description of an improved rule for mast-makers: also a new method by which large yards may be made from small trees, and repaired when sprung in the slings, &c. Illustrated with large engravings and numerous figures.

    | Steel, David | Date: 1797

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