Alarm (1898)

A half plate negative. A starboard quarter view, taken from fine off the stern, of the spritsail barge Alarm (1898) under sail in the River Medway soon after the start of the Medway Barge Match. She is on the starboard tack and her racing flag is attached to her forestay. Her starboard leeboard is deployed and the crew are in their racing whites. To port of her is the spritsail barge Lord Nelson (1898) seen from wide off her starboard quarter. A vertical format image.

Object Details

ID: G1356
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Gould, Frederick Charles
Vessels: Lord Nelson (1898); Alarm (1898)
Date made: 6 June 1899
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection