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First published 2014
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Text © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London 2014
Authors Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt
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The Great and Newly Enlarged Sea Atlas, by Johannes van Keulen (Amsterdam, 1682), PBD8037 © National Maritime Museum
Two English ships wrecked in a storm on a rocky coast, by William van de Velde the Younger, c. 1700, BHC0907 © National Maritime Museum
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A map of London, from A New General Atlas, Containing a Geographical and Historical Account of the World, by John Senex (London, 1721), PBB5531 © National Maritime Museum
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