Chooeubhaokhaossian the Great's Temple of History

Daguerreotype view of the launch of the first-rate 131-gun HMS Marlborough in Portsmouth, England, July 31, 1855. By British photographer Thomas Richard Williams.

Source: Rijksmuseum.

View of workers posing with the HMS Urgent while being rebuilt on the HM Floating Dock Bermuda in Bermuda, 1877.

Source: Sotheby’s.

Hand-colored daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified British Royal Navy officer, c. 1847.

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Two views of crew on the deck of the British steam corvette HMS Satellite, c. 1860's.

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Portraits of 14 of the 24 officers who served in the doomed fourth Franklin Expedition, 1845. All of them perished in the Canadian Arctic during their voyage to find the Northwest Passage. The portrait of leader and namesake of the expedition, Sir John Franklin, is in the center.

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An unidentified Royal Navy brig with its crew posing on deck and in the rigging, location unknown, c. 1850.

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Ships of the British Royal Navy fleet under command of Sir Charles Napier leaving to fight in the Crimean War, near Spithead, 1854. The royal steam yacht HMS Fairy, which was carrying the British Royal Family, can be seen in the center background. By Roger Fenton.

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