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An image showing 'A distant starboard side view, taken from well ahead of the beam, of the German Navy sail training ship Niobe (1849) at moorings in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. She has a three masted ship rig and some of her boats are away from the ship. Her steam launch is at anchor in the foreground. The Coast Guard Watch Vessel CGWV 28 (1847) is drawn up on the Tilbury shore in the background. F. C. Gould & Son'
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Niobe (1849)

A whole plate negative. A distant starboard side view, taken from well ahead of the beam, of the German Navy sail training ship Niobe (1849) at moorings in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. She has a three masted ship rig and some of her boats are away from the ship. Her steam launch is at anchor in the foreground. It contains approximately 46 officers and men of the ship and a man in civilian clothes wearing a top hat. The Coast Guard Watch Vessel CGWV 28 (1847) is drawn up on the Tilbury shore in the background.
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Object Details

ID: G2064
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: F. C. Gould & Son
Vessels: Niobe (1849); Elk (1847)
Date made: 1871-1890; 1862-1891
People: (Germany)
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection