The passenger/cargo liner Rohilla (188)

A whole plate negative. A port side view, taken from well ahead of the beam, of the passenger/cargo liner Rohilla (18800 at moorings in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. She has two yards on her foremast. A topsail schooner is under sail beyond her and Tilbury is in the background. The emulsion has lifted and the negative was discarded in 1980. A 12x10 photographic print made in the 1950s with some signs of emulsion damage at the bottom is available for scanning.

Object Details

ID: G2130
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: F. C. Gould & Son
Vessels: Rohilla (1880)
Date made: 26 July 1882
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection