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Astrolabe: dismounted reverse. Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Battuti, together with Hasan ibn Ahmad (presumed to be his brother), were the last serious representatives of the distinguished tradition of astrolabe-making in the Islamic West. On the throne's reverse is the Arabic inscription: 'Praise to God! Made by Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Battuti - God is his friend and saviour - in the year 1151 of the Hijra of the Prophet'. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
ENMM0506298 		Stern of the Lusitania. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
ENMM0500106 		Strike down aircraft after refuelling, on board an aircraft carrier. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
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Horizontal dial Forged horizontal dial for latitude 45. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
ENMM0501693 		Possibly Jurgen Nielsen Muller or Christian Soren Marcus. Olrik Inglefield's 1854 expedition to the Arctic on HMS Phoenix, c.1832, to provide supplies for the Belcher expedition. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
ENMM0511810 		World map after Ptolemy's Geography, recovered from Constantinople in 1400, was first printed with maps in 1477. It was immensely important in presenting a concept of the world which the Great Discoveries tested and updated. Subsequent editions of the document reflected increases in geographical knowledge. From the 1513 Waldseemuller edition. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
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Ship model, a dimple whiskey bottle containing a model of the schooner Kathleen and May. c.1900. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
ENMM0510714 		Kuwaiti sailors about their tasks on the Triumph of Righteousness, 1930. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
ENMM0513579 		Coiling the cable in the large tanks at the works at Greenwich The cable used in laying the Atlantic telegraph, from Brunel's Great Eastern. The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, under the chairmanship of John Pender, manufactured the 1865 cable at Greenwich. After it had been made, the cable was coiled down into great cylindrical tanks at Enderby's Wharf before being fed into the ship. © National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
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Men and women onlookers at the end of the quay looking at the forest of masts and sails in the harbour at Lowestoft, Suffolk. A view towards the end of the wooden quay of the trawl basin looking across the entrance. In front of the onlookers two men are heaving on a mooring rope. © National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
ENMM0513668 		Sextant by Edward Troughton, c.1820. Brass strait-bar pattern pillar frame (20 pillars), wooden handle. Signed on the limb Troughton, London, and marked platina, and on the centre strut 1003. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
ENMM0511450 		Loss of HMS Ramillies, September 1782: before the storm breaks A painting showing Rear Admiral Graves's flagship Ramillies on 16 September 1782. Under instruction from Admiral Rodney, she was on her way home to England from the North American Station. She was conducting English ships in need of repair, French prizes and a merchant convoy. The ships ran into a gale on the Newfoundland Bank and Ramillies is the ship on the left with a large number of sailors shown aloft dealing with the sails. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
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Passenger liner Titanic (Br, 1912) Oceanic Steam Nav Co Ltd, (Ismay Imrie & Co Ltd, managers) (White Star Line): at Belfast with the Olympic; bow just out of picture. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
ENMM0501312 		Second Class dinner menu from the last night on the RMS Titanic, 14 April, 1912, kept by survivor Mrs Bertha J. Marshall (nee Watt) ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
ENMM0510646 		Whale tooth A whale tooth engraved with the sinking liner, the funnels and the lower part of the hull are coloured red. It is inscribed C41 69, TO WALTER LORD below R.M.S. TITANIC. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
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Knot board Knot board containing a variety of knots including bends, hitches, and splices, a sea chest handle, a bell rope, and a crown made in decorative ropework. It is inscribed JUBILEE KNOTSTALGIA S.J.H. NEAL 1977 and was made to commemorate the jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 1977. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
ENMM0510761 		An illustration from the journal of Edward Barlow (b.1642), kept btween 1659 and 1703, showing a galleon in a stormy sea ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
ENMM0500135 		Chelengk Replica of the diamond chelengk (JEW0367) presented by Sultan Selim III of Turkey to Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) after the Battle of the Nile in 1798. The chelengk is a turban ornament consisting of a central flower made up of sixteen petals with leaves and buds. The stalk of the flower is tied by a bow, above it are thirteen rays representing the ships captured at the Nile, which originally vibrated as the wearer moved. The replica was made for the film Bequest to the Nation and was presented to the National Maritime Museum by the company that made the film. © National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
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Loss of the Royal Charter. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
ENMM0500053 		10ft Punt or balsa life raft (circa 1896) Scale: 1:8. A plan showing the elevation, plan, section and detail of cask forms for a ten foot punt or balsa life raft (circa 1896). © National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
ENMM0512458 		Going forward with the food as we ran for the horn The Parma, a four masted barque. Heavy seas rush across the deck as one of the crew members gets caught in the icy water. © National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
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Lord Rosse's Great Reflecting Telescope, at Parsonstown, Ireland Coloured cotton wall hanging, showing the so-called Leviathan of Parsonstown, a large reflecting telescope erected at Birr Castle in Ireland. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
ENMM0511743 		Elizabeth Jacobsen and Moses relaxing on the forecastle head Moses lies on his front reading a book while Elizabeth has her eyes closed enjoying the sun on the forecastle head of the Parma. When commenting about the appearance of two girls on the ship, the 14 year old Moses philosophically remarked that at least two girls were better than one, coz zen zey fights each ozer!. But the two girls, both of them signed on as apprentices, did not fight each ozer or anybody else and they brought us no bad luck at all... Alan Villiers Last of the Windships, 1933 voyage. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
ENMM0513541 		Fire engine. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
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Grape shot. ©National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
ENMM0501595 		Sir John Franklin, English naval officer and polar explorer, 1786-1847. The end of Franklin's expedition to find the northwest passage, expedition 1845-48 in order to find a sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean. Painting, 1895, by W.Thomas Smith. London, National Maritime Museum, London. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0015114 		Dirk, after 1856 Dirk, after 1856, which belonged to Commander William Edward May (1899-1989). The hilt of the dirk consists of a straight crosspiece with inversed acorn ends. © National Maritime Museum, London / The Image Works
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