Our Maritime Displays Include:
Fishing
Frames, hooks, pots, nets
Model of modern techniques
Fish landed 1822-1875
Marketing the catch
Inside the modern Fish Market
Handcart
Railway transportation
Navigation
Shipping forecast & weather
Radio communications
Depth measurement
Signalling lamps
Sextants and quadrants
Shipbuilding
Plans & half-models
Tools
Photographs
Model of saw pit
Apprenticeship indenture
Mayflower II model and samples of materials used
Supporting trades
Sailmaking
Netmaking
Rigging
Barking
Knitwear
Ropemaking
Vessels
Models
Photographs
Oil paintings
Watercolours
Regattas
Prizes
Programme
Models of winners
Photographs
Minute book of Regatta Committee
Correspondence
Smuggling & Coastguards
Methods used
Signalling
Weapons
Coastguard rescue duties
The Lifeboat
The Great Gale of 1866
Life jackets and lifebuoys
Beeches Buoy
Models
Photographs
Awards
British Seamen's Orphan Boys Home
Harbour & port development
Landing of Prince William of Orange
Naval reservoir and Quay Meadows map
Water supply: section of elm pipe & pipe augers
Photographs of breakwater construction
Photos of Operation Overlord preparations on Breakwater Hard