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Lowestoft Maritime Museum

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Lowestoft Maritime Museum is a private museum in the town of Lowestoft in Suffolk, England, which is dedicated to local and national maritime history. [1]

29 relations: Alfred Prunier, Anne, Princess Royal, Arts Council England, Christopher Cockerell, Cooper (profession), Coxswain, Fishing industry, Google Books, Heritage Lottery Fund, Hovercraft, Lathe, Lowestoft, Marine art, Memorial Plaque (medallion), Merchant Navy (United Kingdom), Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Robert William Hook, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Royal Naval Patrol Service, Royal Navy, Ship model, Ship's wheel, Shipbuilding, Suffolk, Suffolk County Council, Thomas Crisp, Victoria Cross, World War I, World War II.

Alfred Prunier

Alfred Prunier (1848 in Yerville, France – 1925) was a French chef and restaurant owner.

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Anne, Princess Royal

Anne, Princess Royal, (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise; born 15 August 1950) is the second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

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Arts Council England

Arts Council England is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

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Christopher Cockerell

Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell CBE RDI FRS (4 June 1910 – 1 June 1999) was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft.

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Cooper (profession)

A cooper is a person trained to make wooden barrels, vats, buckets, tubs, troughs and other staved containers, from timber that was usually heated or steamed to make it pliable.

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Coxswain

The coxswain is the person in charge of a boat, particularly its navigation and steering.

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Fishing industry

The fishing industry includes any industry or activity concerned with taking, culturing, processing, preserving, storing, transporting, marketing or selling fish or fish products.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Heritage Lottery Fund

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) distributes a share of National Lottery funding, supporting a wide range of heritage projects across the United Kingdom.

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Hovercraft

A hovercraft, also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, is a craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud, ice, and other surfaces.

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Lathe

A lathe is a tool that rotates the workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis.

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Lowestoft

Lowestoft is a town and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk.

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Marine art

Marine art or maritime art is any form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea.

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Memorial Plaque (medallion)

The Memorial Plaque was issued after the First World War to the next-of-kin of all British and Empire service personnel who were killed as a result of the war.

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Merchant Navy (United Kingdom)

The Merchant Navy is the maritime register of the United Kingdom, and comprises the seagoing commercial interests of UK-registered ships and their crews.

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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, 10 June 1921) is the husband and consort of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Robert William Hook

Robert William Hook (4 June 1828 – 28 June 1911) was a fisherman and innkeeper and the coxswain of the RNLI Lowestoft lifeboat and with private companies from 1853 to 1883 and who has been credited with saving more than 600 lives in addition to two cats and a dog.

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Royal National Lifeboat Institution

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the UK, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man as well as on some inland waterways.

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Royal Naval Patrol Service

The Royal Naval Patrol Service (RNPS) was a branch of the Royal Navy active during both the First and Second World Wars.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Ship model

Ship models or model ships are scale models of ships.

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Ship's wheel

A ship's wheel or boat's wheel is a device used aboard a water vessel to change that vessel's course.

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Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.

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Suffolk County Council

Suffolk County Council is the administrative authority for the county of Suffolk, England.

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Thomas Crisp

Skipper Thomas Crisp VC, DSC, RNR (28 April 1876 – 15 August 1917) was an English posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross.

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Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Lowestoft and East Suffolk Maritime Museum.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowestoft_Maritime_Museum

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