Mount Stewart (1891)

A 12x10 negative. A port near broadside view, taken from just ahead of the beam, of the 3 masted ship rigged general cargo sailing vessel Mount Stewart (1891) at moorings in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. She has painted ports and is loaded down to her marks. She is rigged with double topsails and double topgallants but no royals or skysails. The passenger ferry Thames (1868) is dried out on the Tilbury shore in the left background.

Object Details

ID: G362
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: F. C. Gould & Son
Vessels: Mount Stewart (1891); Thames (1868)
Date made: 4 January 1901
People: Rose (Donaldson) & Co; London, Tilbury and Southend Railway Co
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection