A port quarter view of the monitor HMS Marshal Ney (1915) at Dover.

A port quarter view of the monitor Marshal Ney (1915) moored at Dover as a guard ship. The Marshal Ney has had her 15-inch gun replaced with a 9.2-inch gun.

The photograph was taken from the deck of the light cruiser HMS Aurora (1913). Aurora was based at Dover twice in July: 8-15 July, before returning to Harwich on 16 July 1916. She then returned to Dover on 21 July steaming back to Harwich on 29 July. [TNA, ADM 53/34495, ship's log].

Object Details

ID: N22812
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Hooper, Lieutenant Geoffroy William Winsmore
Vessels: Marshal Ney (1915)
Date made: July 1916
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Captain Gunn Collection
Measurements: Overall: 60 mm x 85 mm