A ship’s medicine chest made of mahogany and lined with red velvet. It belonged to a Liverpool ship’s captain and was used on vessels in the Atlantic trade in the 1870s and 1880s.
A silver cased pocket watch with a maritime scene, London 1818
This pretty example with a painted dial very probably belonged to an officer. Because those two ships in the harbour are two warships, and an officer would have been more likely to have had them painted on than a private person.
Tompion and a felt purse with a slow match, both recovered from the wreck of HMS Invincible (1758) in: Heart of Oak, by James P. McGuane
In times of war cannon were often kept loaded and shotted at all times. The tight- fitting wooden plug ( the tompion) sealed up the muzzle and kept out rain, spray and damp.
The felt purse contains a coil of slow match which could be cut to lenght as needed. It was usually a cotton twine impregnated with sulfur and resin. A section of slow match would be held at the end of a wooden rod, called a linstock, and lighted to provide a slow burning ember to ignite the charge on the great guns.
This oil lamp is a hand lamp and is specially secured so that it does not cause any serious trouble in the powder magazine. In the earlier magazines, no lamps were allowed to be used,so the light came from a side chamber.
