Unidentified Yacht

A 12x10 negative. A slightly distant port quarter view, taken from fine off the stern, of an unidentified yacht under sail in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. She has a standing lug rig with a gaff topsail and a jib and she is on the port tack. She has a cabin with a cockpit abaft it and there are four men on board. Her shrouds are of a very unusual rigid criss-cross type. This yacht is also depicted in negatives numbers G1153, G1182 and G1288.

Object Details

ID: G16
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: F. C. Gould & Son
Vessels: Unidentified sailing yachts
Date made: 1875-1910; 1890-1910
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection
Measurements: Overall: 254 mm x 305 mm