Blanco Encalada (1875)

A whole plate negative. A slightly distant port broadside view of the Chilean Navy central battery ironclad Blanco Encalada (1875) at moorings in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. She has been refitted and rearmed by Armstrong on the Tyne and is on the voyage back to Chile. Tilbury is in the background.

Object Details

ID: G2068
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: F. C. Gould & Son
Vessels: Blanco Encalada (1875)
Date made: 22 November 1886
People: (Chile)
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection