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1. The Greenwich Hospital collection
Examples of famous paintings and artefacts donated to the Greenwich Hospital.

2. The General Steam Navigation Company
The GSNC was founded in 1824, and became London's foremost short-sea shipping line for 150 years

3. The GSNC's pleasure boats

4. The Lords of the Ocean: Ships of the East India Company
The East India Company's ships were the most magnificent vessels of their era

5. What is left of the old port: the East India Docks

6. The transit of Venus
See the first photographs of a transit of Venus, taken by astronomers of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in 1874

7. The Company

8. The 1874 Transit of Venus
For the Transit of Venus due to occur in 1874, George Biddell Airy at the Royal Observatory organised and equipped five expeditions to different...

9. Station B - Honolulu, Hawaii
The Royal Observatory sent three parties to the Hawaiian (Sandwich) Islands in 1874, including one to Honolulu, to observe the transit of Venus

10. Station A - Egypt
The Royal Observatory sent three parties to Egypt in 1874 to observe the tansit of Venus

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